Three children in the backseat of a car on their way to school, a brown shag carpet on brown ceramic tiles, wheat stalks in the spring, an exhibition wall, three Michelin tires, three stock pots, one green suitcase, and a yellow frying pan: an exhibition of works by Christopher Williams, on view at the Hong Kong gallery.
Deeply political and historical, Williams’s work addresses the visual and informational structures that define everyday life. Working in a variety of media, including photography, video, and installation, his multifaceted practice incorporates references to multiple sources and precedents, including the artist’s own ever-expanding inventory of imagery and discursive materials.
Many of the works that will be on view in Hong Kong are from a body of work Williams developed in the 2010s that were informed by the artist’s interest in two important Cold War era publications: Ty i Ja (You and I), a Polish magazine created by the Women’s League that focused on domestic life, fashion, and culture, and Lui (Him), a French pinup magazine specializing in female nudes and erotica, which was source material for Guy Debord’s influential 1974 situationist film La Société du Spectacle (Society of the Spectacle).
Epitomizing, while also critically undermining, many discursive binaries within Cold War society—such as supposedly male versus female content, and Eastern soviet versus Western capitalist culture—these seemingly disparate but influential magazines served as source material for Williams, who, over the course of several years, assembled detailed archives devoted to each. Laid out on large tables within his studio, they became a kind of visual play script, which was then adapted to produce these photographic works—some closely recreating his source materials, and others recasting their formats and structures—that reflect on the social conditions of modern life.
The exhibition in Hong Kong, the artist’s first solo show in Greater China, follows standard pose, at David Zwirner Paris in 2021, and Footwear (Adapted for Use), at the gallery’s 34 East 69th Street location in New York in 2020, and will mark his eleventh solo show with David Zwirner. In spring 2021, Williams’s solo exhibition werbung: adapted for use was on view at Haubrok Foundation, Berlin, and from 2019 to 2020, C/O Berlin presented a solo show titled MODEL: Kochgeschirre, Kinder, Viet Nam (Angepasst zum Benutzen).
Christopher Williams was born in Los Angeles in 1956. Since 2000, his work has been represented by David Zwirner. He has had ten solo exhibitions at the gallery.
Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness marked the artist's first major museum survey, which spanned thirty-five years of work. The exhibition was first on view at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2014, followed by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Whitechapel Gallery, London in 2015. Also in 2014, Williams was the first artist to receive the Photography Catalogue of the Year, presented by the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, for the two volumes specially designed and published on the occasion of his touring survey, The Production Line of Happiness (exhibition catalogue) and Printed in Germany (artist book).
Other solo exhibitions include those held at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (2018); La Triennale di Milano (2017); ETH Zurich, Institute gta, Zürich (2017); Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (2011); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2011); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (2010); Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2010); Kunsthalle Zürich (2007); Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2006); Secession, Vienna (2005); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2005); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1997); and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (1995).
Museum collections which hold works by the artist include The Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He lives and works in Cologne and Los Angeles.
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克里斯托弗·威廉姆斯:
《R59C 凱斯通浴室門 — 鍍鉻/雨花玻璃》
2023年1月20日-2月18日
香港中環皇后大道中80號 H Queen’s 5-6樓
三個坐在汽車後座的孩子正在去往學校的路上、棕色瓷磚上的一塊棕色絨毛地毯、春天裡的麥稈、一面展牆、三個米其林輪胎、三口湯鍋、一隻綠色行李箱和一個黃色煎鍋:這些出自克里斯托弗·威廉姆斯(Christopher Williams)的作品,將呈現於藝術家在卓納畫廊香港空間舉辦的展覽上。
威廉姆斯的作品極具政治和歷史意涵,它們探討的是那些定義了日常生活的視覺及信息架構。他以攝影、視頻和裝置等一系列媒介進行創作,其多面向的實踐包含了對諸多素材來源及先例的指涉,包括藝術家自己不斷收集拓展的圖像性和話語論述性的素材資料。
此次即將展出的許多作品都出自威廉姆斯在2010年代發展起來的一組創作,它們深受藝術家對兩本重要的冷戰時期出版物的興趣所啟發:《你和我》(Ty i Ja),這本波蘭雜誌由婦女聯盟創辦,專注於家庭生活、時尚和文化;以及《他》(Lui),一本法國的限制級雜誌,專注於女性裸像和情色內容,並且曾是居伊·德波(Guy Debord)創作於1974年的情境主義電影《景觀社會》(La Société du Spectacle)的素材來源。
這兩本雜誌看似不同但極具影響力,它們濃縮但也批判性地削弱了冷戰社會中諸多話語論述的二元對立——比如所謂的男性與女性的內容,東方蘇維埃與西方資本主義的文化等——它們是威廉姆斯重要的創作素材,他在過去數年間為每本雜誌彙編了詳盡的檔案。這些雜誌放置在他工作室的大桌子上,成為一種視覺劇本,隨後被改編成藝術家的攝影作品——其中的一些聯繫緊密地再現了他的創作素材,另一些則對素材的形態和結構進行了重塑——由此反映出現代生活的社會境況。
此次香港展覽,將是藝術家在大中華地區的首次個展,緊接著威廉姆斯於2021年在卓納畫廊巴黎空間舉辦的《標準姿勢》和2020年在紐約東69街34號畫廊空間舉辦的《鞋子(改造適用)》,此次香港展覽將是藝術家在卓納畫廊的第十一次個展。 2021年春,威廉姆斯的個展《廣告(改造適用)》舉辦於柏林的豪布洛克基金會。 2019到2020年,C/O柏林為藝術家舉辦了題為《模特:炊具、兒童、越南(改造適用)》的個展。
克里斯托弗·威廉姆斯(Christopher Williams)1956年出生於洛杉磯。自2000年起,卓納畫廊開始代理他的作品。他在畫廊已經舉辦了十場個展。
《克里斯托弗·威廉姆斯:幸福的生產線》是藝術家第一場重要的博物館專題個展,橫跨了他三十五年的創作。展覽於2014年在芝加哥藝術博物館首展,隨後在2015年巡展至紐約的現代藝術博物館和倫敦的白教堂美術館。同樣是在2014年,威廉姆斯成為了首位獲得由影像巴黎-光圈基金會攝影書獎頒發的“年度攝影圖冊獎”的藝術家,其獲獎作品是他在此次巡迴專題展時特別設計出版的雙卷本出版物《幸福的生產線》(展覽圖冊)以及《德國印刷》(藝術家書)。
在2019-2020年,C/O柏林為藝術家舉辦了展覽《克里斯托弗·威廉姆斯 - 模特:炊具、兒童、越南(改造適用)》。其他為威廉姆斯舉辦過個展的機構還包括:克斯特納協會,德國漢諾威(2018);米蘭三年展(2017);蘇黎世聯邦理工學院gta機構,蘇黎世(2017);莫斯布羅赫博物館,德國勒沃庫森(2011);鄧特-達恩斯博物館,比利時多爾(2011);巴登-巴登國家藝術館,德國(2010);卑爾根藝術廳,挪威(2010);蘇黎世藝術館(2007);塞拉維斯當代藝術博物館,葡萄牙波爾多(2006);分離派展覽館,維也納(2005);不倫瑞克藝術協會,德國(2005);博伊曼斯范伯寧恩美術館,鹿特丹(1997);以及韋克斯納藝術中心,俄亥俄州哥倫布(1995)。
珍藏了藝術家作品的博物館包括:芝加哥藝術博物館、匹茲堡的卡內基藝術博物館、洛杉磯的哈默博物館、華盛頓特區的赫希洪博物館和雕塑園、科隆的路德維希博物館、紐約的大都會藝術博物館、紐約的現代藝術博物館、維也納的路德維希基金會現代藝術展覽館、紐約的古根海姆美術館,以及紐約的惠特尼美國藝術博物館。藝術家現生活工作於科隆和洛杉磯。
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