From a photograph of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. looking at Alexander Calder's "Gibralter" (1936)
(Alfred H. Barr, Jr.: A Memorial Tribute, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1982)
POEMOBJECT
OPENING THURSDAY 23 MAY, 5PM-8PM
23 MAY - 20 JUNE, 2013
EXHIBITION ORGANIZED BY GENEVIEVE ALLISON
ANNAELLEGALLERY is pleased to present Poemobject, a group show featuring three New Zealand and three European artists.
The exhibition considers the idea of the 'articulate' versus the 'discretionary' object. While not mutually exclusive, the difference between the two lies in the location of the 'text'--a target ever-shifting between semantic and phenomenological registers. Circling this target, or filtering it, are the following propositions:
1.0 It is abundantly clear by now, that we do not need to have an object to have an artwork
- Joseph kosuth
2.0 The work is held in the hand, the text is held in language...
- Roland Barthes
3.0 [the poetic] that type of message that takes for object its own form.
- Roman Jakobson
4.0 the relation of Form and Content is always phenomenological
- Roland Barthes
HOURS
TUE-FRI 12-6PM
SAT-SUN 12-4PM
VISITING ADDRESS: RIDDARGATAN 41
