The Gallery & I. Videos & Digital Prints. The show includes a sculptural viewing lounge, housing four of Stellbaum's newest videos, and the ongoing public poster project 'The Gallery & I'. The colorful lounge, designed in cooperation with the Berlin architect Helia Hecker embodies the 'logic and permutation theme' from Stellbaum's videos. The lounge is painted with large graphic patterns, camouflaging its original basic appearance into a vivid organic setting.
The Gallery and I
Videos & Digital Prints
Main Gallery
March 10 to April 3, 2004
Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent works
by Gabriele Stellbaum. The exhibition is on view from March 10 through April
3, 2004. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Wednesday,
March 10, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
The show includes a sculptural viewing lounge, housing four of Stellbaum's
newest videos, and the ongoing public poster project " The Gallery & I". The
colorful lounge, designed in cooperation with the Berlin architect Helia
Hecker embodies the 'logic and permutation theme' from Stellbaum's videos.
The lounge is painted with large graphic patterns, camouflaging its original
basic appearance into a vivid organic setting.
The principle transforms an excerpt of Samuel Beckett's Molloy into an
absurd 13 min slapstick performance. The video amuses and tortures with its
pedantic language, while it philosophizes a meaningless topic. In
Münchhausen, trying to step on a pedestal, Stellbaum takes an irrational
approach, which leads to a harmful downfall. I should have begun differently
shows Stellbaum performing an impossible headstand. The piece focuses on the
inevitable failure of the attempt due to a wrong beginning. Completing this
strange circle of futility is the video 20 x 3 x 2 x 1, a guide on how to
eat six different cookies in 120 variations.
Posters for the "Gallery & I" have been displayed in various public
locations in Chelsea. Designed as a partner project between gallery and
artist, the project employs art-marketing strategies to blur and twist the
roles of representation, network and artmaking, while humorously questioning
the relationship between artist and gallery.
Born in Berlin, Germany, Gabriele Stellbaum exhibited extensively in solo
and group shows in Europe and the U.S. After a long residency in New York,
Stellbaum currently lives and work in Berlin.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 10, 6 - 8 p.m.
Megan McLarney: Video Landscapes (a synchronized, multi- channel, video
installation)
Project Space
We are pleased to announce our participation at the Armory Show from March
11 to the 15th. Please visit us at Pier 92 Booth 128.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 to 6:00 p.m. For
further information and visual material, please contact Florence Lynch or
Charles Hayward at 924-3290
Florence Lynch Gallery
531-539 West 25th Street, Ground Floor
New York