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Dear Friends,
Confronted with an indefinite period of self-isolation, many of us have broached the question of how to occupy ourselves over the coming weeks or maybe months. Several artists that form part of Adrastus Collection have accepted this peacetime challenge. In this newsletter, we would like to present you some of the most creative initiatives that have risen in the last few weeks. Click on the images below to follow the links for each artist's proposal.
This encouragement shows that these artists, so perpendicular in their careers, have spared their time to support that of the many in need. They are using their influence and creativity to bring their communities together and that is only but commendable. We hope to show our support by continuing to spread their ideas and creativity. Furthermore, we intend to communicate the personal words of some of these artists, many of who have had important exhibitions cancelled.
Stay tuned for more...
Be safe,
The Adrastus Collection Team
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LOUISE LAWLER
Louise Lawler’s work is very much involved with taking pictures of other artist’s works in private homes, collections, museums, and changes the contexts and user value behind the piece whilst bringing a certain individual lens to each. Now, made in collaboration with the children’s book illustrator Jon Buller, she has produced downloadable and printable for free pieces, which are available on MoMA’s website. An artist known for her photographic explorations of how artworks exist in various settings, she presents an almost ghostly presence of previous images she has created. She leaves only the outline of these images, voiding any colour, and invites the public to reimagine her own work. This idea of re-appropriation and re-presentation of her own work is critical to her work and artworks like (Bunny) Sculpture and Painting (traced). (1999/2019), show just how much the meaning of art is shaped by its context, surroundings, and arrangement, and that there is no impartial way to present art.
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RYAN GANDER (again)
Ryan Gander also participated in “Art is where the home is”, a downloadable artist activity pack launched by The Firstsite art center in Colchester. The activity pack includes contributions from critically acclaimed artists including Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry, Gillian Wearing, among others.
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TOMÁS SARACENO
The Argentinean artist was one of the first artist to upload his artwork online for worldwide enjoyment after his solo show Aria was closed at Palazzo Strozzi. In his personal Twitter account, his video-message begins with the description of one of his artworks, Particular Matter(s) Jam Session. In this video, he later demonstrates how our movement influences the drift in particles, urging for a reduction of travel and how “we need to move slower”, an appeal “to move differently for better times”.
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DAVID NOONAN
Australian artist David Noonan donated one of his silkscreen print for an online fund raising auction to support Cafe OTO, a non-profit community coffee shop and bookstore in London.
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RYAN GANDER
On Tuesday 7 April, Ryan Gander made a virtual but intimate walk-through of his studio, featuring a philosophical animatronic mouse, ghostly apparitions, fake snow drifts, and other new works directly from his workshop. Through the magic of video streaming, Gander provided an insider view from his everyday life and the unique conditions the artist finds himself in during the current emergency. Another transmission is to be done April 9 at 10am PST.
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ALEJANDRO CESARCO
Uruguayan artist Alejandro Cesarco presented Screening Rooms, a digital platform to experience and to explore a program entirely dedicated to video. In the first chapter, he presented Learning the Language (Present Continuous I) (2018), a tender video featuring Argentine pianist and scholar Margarita Fernández playing a movement from a Franz Schubert sonata. Cesarco borrows the vocabulary of the person portrayed to address some of his own recurrent concerns (memory, repetition, regrets, etc.).
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RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA
Tiravanija re-published digitally his book Cook Book – Just Smile and Don’t Talk, which contains a collection of 23 recipes for a variety of dishes, ranging from Pad Thai to Flaming Morning Glory and his now famous Negroni recipe. Since the 1990s, Rirkrit Tiravanija has sought to introduce the idea of social engagement to his artistic practice, often inviting viewers to inhabit and activate his work, blurring the distance between artist and viewer. In these deceptively simple conceptual pieces, the artist invites the visitor to interact with contemporary art. Instead of merely looking at the art, the visitor is an essential part of making of art.
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TACITA DEAN
Event for a Stage is a 16mm film made in 2015 by Dean in collaboration with the actor Stephen Dillane. Usually, she never allows her films to be streamed online or even projected digitally. However, due to the relevancy of the project to the emotional turmoil of these days during the Covid 19 lockdown, she has allowed it to be streamed for one week only.
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