Plug In ICA

Tournée guidée en français de deux nouvelles expositions solo des artistes Angie Keefer et Fred Sandback
2017-02-04 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | Manitoba
Le samedi le 4 février, Plug In ICA présente une tournée guidée en français par Janelle Tougas des expositions FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELL d’Angie Keefer et une sélection d’oeuvres de Fred Sandback.
Angie Keefer
FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELL
FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELL est une exposition de nouvelles œuvres par Angie Keefer, une artiste estimée pour son profond engagement discursif dans le monde des arts visuels. Ses projets passent du design à l’édition, de l’écriture à la performance, de l’installation à l’enseignement et remettent toujours en question ses reflexes qui lient les formes symboliques et matérielles à la fluctuation d’activité sur les marchés financiers et les marchés de la connaissance.
Trois nouvelles œuvres sont présentées sous une exposition commune divisée dans deux espaces distincts, séparant ainsi le rôle de l’observateur et le rôle de l’acteur chez le participant. FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELL occupe l’écran dans le passage couvert à l’entrée du Plug In ICA, tandis que la galerie qui donne sur la rue sert de studio de production et de salle d’exposition. Ces œuvres complexes captent et projettent l’image des visiteurs, les impliquant dans une trajectoire historique qui mène vers les démarcations commerciales et actuelles du statut de première classe.
Angie Keefer est artiste, écrivaine, enseignante et éditrice. Par contre, la distinction entre ces catégories dans l’œuvre de Keefer est beaucoup plus floue que ces titres laissent entendre. Elle s’intéresse aux particularités fortuites de la création et de la distribution de l’art – à la prise de position critique ou commerciale par le langage, au travail qui l’entoure, et aux forces mouvantes du marché – Keefer dévoile et met à l’épreuve ce qui supporte le tout. Elle a souvent présenté ses œuvres aux États-Unis, en Europe et en Amérique du Sud. Parmi ses expositions récentes, on retrouve Greater New York, PS1, New York (2015-16); Kunstverein Munich (2015); la Whitney Biennial, New York (2014); Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp (2013-14); et Yale Union, Portland (2013). Keefer travaille aussi avec une variété d’organismes pour monter des performances, des conférences et des séminaires, ainsi que d’autres séries parmi lesquelles on retrouve Artists Space, New York (2015); le Liverpool Biennial (2014); Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius (2014, 2011); le Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brézil (2013); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2013); le São Paulo Biennial, Brézil (2012); et le Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012). Ses textes ont paru récemment dans Mousse, Harvard Design Magazine, et Bulletins of The Serving Library.
PROGRAMMATION CONNEXE:
Jeudi le 16 février | 19h : Respondent Series : Discussion avec Evelyn Forget
Jeudi le 16 mars | 19h : Respondent Series: Conférence d’artiste par Howie Chen
Cette exposition est commanditée en partie par Video Pool Media Arts Centre à Winnipeg.
Fred Sandback
Une sélection d’œuvres
Les œuvres de Fred Sandback sont difficiles à décrire puisqu’elles contiennent une énergie générée par les gestes et les moyens les plus simples pour produire de grands effets. Sandback abandonne l’objet afin de dessiner dans l’espace. À partir de matériaux standard achetés en magasin, il façonne une expérience épurée et précise de l’espace. Utilisant le plus fréquemment du fil acrylique, il dessine des lignes qui activent l’espace et qui créent des volumes dans des chambres autrement vides. Il expose ce qui s’y trouve déjà, donnant au vide une définition.
Son exposition au Plug In est une sélection d’œuvres de sa pratique sculpturale qui comprend des pièces horizontales et verticales qui s’étendent du sol au plafond, le long des murs, et en lignes droites et diagonales. La couleur donne une résonnance émotionnelle aux lignes, à l’énergie et aux formes qui se dévoilent graduellement tout au long de la rencontre perceptuelle du visiteur.
Fred Sandback (1943-2003) a exposé ses œuvres internationalement à compter de l’année 1968. Ses premières expositions en solo ont lieu à la Galerie Konrad Fischer à Düsseldorf et à la Galerie Heiner Friedrich à Munich. Il était étudiant de maitrise en beaux arts à l’école d’art et d’architecture de Yale lors de celles-ci. En 2005, Le Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein à Vaduz organise une vaste étude des œuvres de Sandback. Ce projet voyage au Fruitmarket Gallery à Édinbourg et à la Neue Galerie am Joanneum à Graz en 2006. En 2011, ses œuvres sont présentées dans une exposition en solo au Whitechapel Gallery à Londres, puis au Museum of Contemporary Art à Denver. Ce dernier consacre le bâtiment en entier à cette exposition. En 2014, le Kunstmuseum Winterthur en Suisse accueille une importante rétrospective de ses dessins qui est ensuite montrée au Josef Albers Museum à Bottrop et au Museum Wiesbaden en Allemagne. De mai à septembre 2015, le Pulitzer Art Foundation à St. Louis présente aussi une exposition de ses œuvres. Lié à l’exposition du même nom, Fred Sandback: Light, Space, Facts at The Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Md (parue en 2016) est la plus récentes des nombreuses publications sur son œuvre. En 2017, le University of Chicago Press publieraAspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculptures par Edward A. Vazquez. On retrouve aussi ses sculptures dans plusieurs collections de musées à l’international et dans une exposition permanente au Dia:Beacon à New York. Le patrimoine de Sandback est représenté par David Zwirner, New York/Londres et un historique complet de ses expositions et de sa bibliographie est disponible en ligne au site www.fredsandbackarchive.org.
PROGRAMMATION CONNEXE:
Samedi le 21 janvier | 15h : Tournée guidée par Amavong Panya
Dimanche le 26 février | 11h : Cat’s Cradle – un atelier pour enfants mené par Hannah Doucet
Vendredi le 24 mars | 19h : Respondent Series: Discussion par Edward A. Vazquez
Cette exposition et la programmation connexe est généreusement commanditée par Michael Nesbitt.
Les textes descriptifs des expositions sont disponibles en anglais à plugin.org

Exhibition Tour by Amavong Panya
2017-01-21 15:00 - 16:30
On Saturday January 21, 3pm, join us for a walk through of the Fred Sandback exhibition, A Sampling of Works with Chief Installer and artist Amavong Panya.

Panya’s intimate knowledge of Sandback’s sculptures will offer valuable insight into the work of this important American artist.

“It is my belief Fred’s work is a deliberate and experiential conversation of space and sometimes the unnoticed architectural and functional details of a room and its physical constructs such as a wall, floor, ceiling or combination of those elements. The idea of sculpture and the viewer’s movement to “see” a sculpture alllows another depth to the ultimate conversation of Fred Sandback’s catalog of work.”

Amavong Panya is an artist and co-owner of NFA SPACE Contemporary Art + Exhibit Services, Inc. based in Chicago, IL USA. Among its many clients, The Fred Sandback Estate has cooperated with Amavong Panya as the Chief Installer and Installation Expert of Fred Sandback’s work for over a decade. The continued interest, dialogue and admiration of Fred’s work has brought forth various installation projects and exhibitions around the globe such as the Kuntsmuseum in Vaduz, LI; Instituto Moreira Salles in Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro BR; Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, CO USA; Gallery New South Wales in Sydney, AU and more recently the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, MD USA.

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Fred Sandback, A Sampling of Works

Plug In ICA Launches Two New Solo Exhibitions with Angie Keefer and Fred Sandback
2017-01-21 10:00 - 2017-03-26 18:00
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is extremely pleased to announce the launch of our winter program with two solo exhibitions by acclaimed American artists Angie Keefer and Fred Sandback. Keefer is known for her complex portrayal of art and economics and Sandback is historically renowned for his perceptual sculpture made from simple means in command of light and space. These presentations mark their first solo exhibitions in Canada. The exhibition launches with an artist talk by Angie Keefer on Thrusday, January 19 at 7pm, an opening reception on Friday, January 20 at 7pm, and a walk-through of Sandback’s exhibition by Amavong Panya on Saturday, January 21 at 3pm.
Angie Keefer
FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELL

FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELL is an exhibition of new work by Angie Keefer, an artist admired for her deep discursive engagement in the visual arts. Her work moves between design and publishing, writing, performance, installation, and teaching, and is often unsettled in its reflexive linking of symbolic or material form with the fluctuating activity of financial and knowledge markets.

Three new works are presented as a unified exhibition divided among two distinct spaces, separating the viewer’s experiences as witness and performer. FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELLoccupies Plug In ICA’s exhibition breezeway on a monitor wall and our street front gallery, which Keefer turns into a production studio and showroom. These complex works capture and project the image of their audience, implicating viewers in a historic trajectory leading towards the contemporary, commercial delineation of first class status.

Angie Keefer is an artist, writer, teacher, and publisher, though the distinctions among these categories are much less definitive in Keefer’s work than comma-separated terms would indicate. Taking an interest in the incidental aspects of art making and its dissemination—from critical & commercial positioning through language, to surrounding labour, and shifting market forces—Keefer exposes and pushes at the seams of that which holds the enterprise together. She has exhibited extensively in the USA as well as Europe and South America. Recent exhibitions include Greater New York, PS1, New York (2015-16); Kunstverein Munich (2015); Whitney Biennial, New York (2014); Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp (2013-14); and Yale Union, Portland (2013). Keefer has also worked with various organizations to stage performances, talks, seminars, and other series, including Artists Space, New York (2015); Liverpool Biennial (2014); Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius (2014, 2011); Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2013); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2013); São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2012); and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012), among others. Her writing has recently appeared in Mousse, Harvard Design Magazine, and Bulletins of The Serving Library.

RELATED PROGRAMS:
Thursday, January 19 | 7:00pm: Artist Talk by Angie Keefer
Thursday, February 16 | 7:00pm: Respondent Series: Talk by Evelyn Forget
Thursday, March 16 | 7:00pm: Respondent Series: Artist Talk by Howie Chen

This exhibition is sponsored in part by Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg.
Fred Sandback
A Sampling of Works

It is difficult to describe Fred Sandback’s artworks as they contain an energy that is generated from the simplest of means and most minimal of gestures to the most maximal effects. Sandback leaves the object behind to draw in space. Using ordinary store bought materials in a seemingly minimal and precise manner, he redefines our experience of space. Most commonly, he uses acrylic yarn to draw lines that articulate space, delineating volume in otherwise empty rooms, over ostensibly bare walls from floor to ceiling and wall to wall. He exposes what is already there seemingly giving definition to air.
His exhibition for Plug In is a sampling of this sculptural practice that includes both vertical and horizontal pieces that stretch from floor to ceiling, across walls, and in straight and diagonal lines. The artist’s use of colour adds an emotional vibrancy as line, shape, and energy reveal themselves gradually within the viewer’s perceptual encounter.
Fred Sandback (1943-2003) exhibited internationally from 1968 when his first solo shows were held at Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, and Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, while the artist was still a graduate student pursuing his MFA at the Yale School of Art and Architecture. The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, organized an extensive survey in 2005, which traveled to the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, and the Neue Galerie am Joanneum, Graz, in 2006. In 2011, his work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the same year the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, dedicated its entire building to a solo exhibition. In 2014, the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland hosted a major retrospective of his drawings that subsequently traveled to the Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop and Museum Wiesbaden, Germany. The Pulitzer Art Foundation, St. Louis, mounted an exhibition from May to September 2015. There are numerous publications on his work, the most recent in 2016 documenting Fred Sandback: Light, Space, Facts at The Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Md. Aspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculptures by Edward A. Vazquez will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017. Sandback’s sculpture is represented in numerous museum collections internationally and is on permanent view at Dia:Beacon, New York. His estate is represented by David Zwirner, New York/London and a complete exhibition history and bibliography is available online at www.fredsandbackarchive.org.

RELATED PROGRAMS:
Saturday, January 21 | 3:00pm: Exhibition Tour by Amavong Panya
Sunday, February 26 | 11:00am: Cat’s Cradle – a children’s workshop lead by Hannah Doucet
Date to be determined | Respondent Series: Talk by Edward A. Vazquez

This exhibition and related programs are generously sponsored by Michael Nesbitt.

Full length exhibition texts are available on plugin.org

Plug In ICA gratefully acknowledges the continued support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their contribution to our artistic programs. As always we extend our appreciation to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers.
Plug In ICA relies on community support to remain free and accessible to all, and enable us to continue to present excellent programs. Please consider becoming a member of Plug In ICA and a donor at https://plugin.org/support or by contacting Angela Forget: angela@plugin.org
For general information please contact: info@plugin.org. For media inquiries please contact Sarah Nesbitt: sarah@plugin.org

Exhibition Tour and Artist Talk with Angie Keefer
2017-01-19 19:00 - 21:00
On Thursday, January 19th, in conjunction with her solo exhibition at Plug In ICA, FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELL American artist Angie Keefer will be giving an exhibition tour including an in depth discussion around each of the works, and a question and answer period.
Angie Keefer is an artist, writer, teacher, and publisher, though the distinctions among these categories are much less definitive in Keefer’s work than comma-separated terms would indicate. Taking an interest in the incidental aspects of art making and its dissemination—from critical & commercial positioning through language, to surrounding labour, and shifting market forces—Keefer exposes and pushes at the seams of that which holds the enterprise together. She has exhibited extensively in the USA as well as Europe and South America. Recent exhibitions include Greater New York, PS1, New York (2015-16); Kunstverein Munich (2015); Whitney Biennial, New York (2014); Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp (2013-14); and Yale Union, Portland (2013). Keefer has also worked with various organizations to stage performances, talks, seminars, and other series, including Artists Space, New York (2015); Liverpool Biennial (2014); Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius (2014, 2011); Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2013); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2013); São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2012); and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012), among others. Her writing has recently appeared in Mousse, Harvard Design Magazine, and Bulletins of The Serving Library.
For more information about the exhibition see: Angie Keefer: FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELL
This exhibition is sponsored in part by Video Pool Media Arts Centre and William F. White International Inc., Winnipeg

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Angie Keefer, FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELL
