2011 ARCO
Installation views, No State II
Solo Projects, Feria ARCO, Madrid
Presented by Christinger de Mayo, Zürich
February 15 – 19, 2012
No State II, 2012
Cotton fabric and thread
3 curtains of approx. 280 x 150 cm
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The three curtains presented at ARCO 2012 belong to a series of curtains that appropriate drawings by a historical modernist artist, in this case, by Alexander Rodchenko yet in others by Paul Klee and Raúl Lozza. Original scale and technique are replaced/changed to reinsert the work into space, producing a bodily encounter with the viewer. These works also function as homages and as research exercises – or platforms. Learning moments both for me as for the viewer.
The three No State II curtains were fabricated in Santiago de Chile by Myriam Luz, a seamstress I have worked with before in multiple projects. For this one and previous ones, I asked Myriam to decide the kind of stitches to be used for each trace of the drawing.
Photographs bellow by Javier Lewin, photo session at Die Ecke Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile.
