Laszlo Moholy-Nagy & Simon Starling opening March 23 @ Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
Simon Starling, Wilhelm Noack oHG, 2006, installation view
(stainless steel, 35mm film projector, 4 minute looped 35mm film projection, plastic, sound, light) Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
László Moholy-Nagy & Simon Starling
March 24 - April 29, 2007
Presentation House Gallery
Opening reception: Friday, March 23, 8 pm
Simon Starling in attendance
Simon Starling, Artist Lecture
Saturday, March 24 at 2 pm, at Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street (at Davie)
Oliver Botar lecture: “László Moholy-Nagy and Biocentrism”
Sunday, March 25 at 2 pm, at Presentation House Gallery
A Moholy-Nagy scholar and art historian at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Botar will discuss the artist’s utopian conceptions of aesthetics and technology.
This exhibition brings together two artists from different eras whose works reflect on modernity and technology. The film projections featured in this exhibition reveal how the mechanical eye of the camera creates a unique form of seeing.
This exhibition is the North American premiere of a new installation by the distinguished British artist, Simon Starling. Born in 1967 in Epsom, England and a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, this multimedia artist has quickly risen to international prominence. Winner of the coveted Turner Prize in 2005, he has exhibited widely and now here for the first time in Canada. The mixed media installation at PHG highlights his concern for mechanized and handmade production, and physical materials as histories of place. Produced in collaboration with the Berlin metal manufacturing firm referred to in the title, Wilhelm Noack oHG is a 35 mm., black and white film projection and elaborate projector apparatus. Related to Starling’s interest in icons of the modern, this work is a poetic reflection on machine culture and the nature of projection.
Born in Hungary in 1895, László Moholy-Nagy was an influential Bauhaus innovator who worked in various mediums including painting, sculpture, film and photography. He was also a graphic and stage designer, and an influential writer and teacher who published theories about perception - what he called “the new vision.” The works on display at Presentation House Gallery highlight Moholy’s experiments with abstraction and light as material. The exhibition profiles his experimental photography, including innovative cameraless photographs (photograms) as well as rarely seen colour photography. Running continuously in the gallery will be the 1930 film Light Play: Black White Grey that documents the play of light and shadow created by the mechanistic movements of one of his kinetic sculptures.
Contact Curator Helga Pakasaar for more information.
The Simon Starling lecture is in partnership with the Emily Carr Lecture Series and the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver.
This exhibition is financially supported by the British Council, London and the British Council, Canada with assistance from Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Emily Carr Institute, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, the Estate of László Moholy-Nagy, George Eastman House, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, and private collections.
Presentation House Gallery
333 Chesterfield Avenue
North Vancouver, BC V7M 3G9
604.986.1351
Presentation House Gallery
333 Chesterfield Avenue
North Vancouver, BC V7M 3G9
604.986.1351