LIFE,
after the Squirrel
Curated by Harm Lux
September 9 through October 28
Opening: Saturday, September 9, 1-6 pm, Street Lunch at 2 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-6 pm
G R A N D O P E N I N G
LIFE, After the Squirrel, the grand
opening show of Location One has been curated by Harm Lux, an international
curator, originally from the Netherlands, who has been based in Zurich
for the past ten years.
LIFE, After the Squirrel will feature
several European and American artists and a number of young artists
discovered by Mr. Lux when he traveled throughout the United States
researching new work. In addition to Location One's actual space, the
show will also be exhibited in a virtual dimension (QTVR). Viewers of
the virtual dimension can actively participate, intervene and send these
interventions back to the gallery via innovative software, which is
currently being developed.
Mr. Lux describes the title and the scenography
of the show as "a misleading introduction to an exhibition with
several subtexts." The participants' works overlap and complement
each other as they negotiate a course that is typical of this curator
in its economy of meaning. His staging of the show is full of
lightness and conveys well-being and joy, but it is reduced to aesthetic
insignificance by the powerful basic questions that the artists' contributions
pose. Their individual works deal playfully with the acceptance
of death and the impossibility of unambiguous communication. The
works introduce fiction, sentiment and traces of poetry; they address
the random way in which things take their course and articulate the
joy of playing.
Participating Artists: Mike Bouchet,
Janet Cardiff, Mason Cooley, Filipe Miguel, Aernout Mik, John Neff,
Vincent Pruden, relax (Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza, Daniel Hauser, Daniel
Croptier), Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Greg Simsic, Kirsten Stoltman,
Tony Tasset and Pia Wergius.
Location One is especially grateful to
The Mondriaan Foundation for their support of this exhibition
