New Works: 06.2

Artpace San Antonio is pleased to announce New Works: 06.2, on view July 6, 2006 through September 10, 2006. The exhibition presents new projects by resident artists Luz María Sánchez (San Antonio, TX); Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger (Uster, Switzerland); and Do-Ho Suh (New York, NY). Selected by Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, each artist alternately addresses the current immigration debates, the cultivation of interactive wonderlands, and the exploration of an autobiographical journey.

About the Artists Mexican-born Luz María Sánchez’s immersive sound and video environments challenge physical and emotional responses to sonic data through dislocation, duration, and repetition. Minimal in presentation, her works isolate and amplify politically charged frequencies such as Arab radio broadcasts and the U.S./Mexico border soundscape to abstract and re-map cultural space. At Artpace, Sánchez continues her investigations of site and language in diaspora I/II, an installation reflecting on current immigration debates.

Since 1997 Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger have collaborated to produce interactive installations that tangle cultivation with chaos, the synthetic with the natural, and the fantastic with the domestic. Twigs, cables, blossoms, and found objects fuse to create room-encompassing webs, falling gardens, and crystalline pools. Steiner & Lenzlinger’s Artpace residency project, The Found and Lost Grotto of Saint Antonio, honors the city’s namesake, Saint Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost things.

Korean-born Do-Ho Suh’s large-scale sculptures explore the individual’s connection to the spatial, cultural, and global whole. Examining relationships between personal and collective identity, past projects have amassed military dog tags into a warrior’s gown and refashioned the artist’s home in suspended fabric. In Fallen Star (Lone Star Version), Suh further intertwines autobiography and architecture, modeling a process-filled narrative of his journey from Korea to the United States and his continued negotiation of these two worlds.

About the Curator Yuko Hasegawa is the Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan. Previously, Hasegawa was Chief Curator of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. She was a member of the international jury for the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), Artistic Director of the 7th International Istanbul Biennial (2001), a member of the jury for the 2002 Hugo Boss Prize, Co-Curator of the 4th Shanghai Biennale (2002) and commissioner of Japanese Pavilion of the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). Hasegawa teaches art history at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and serves as a board member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art.

New Works: 06.2 is made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, and the Nimoy Foundation, with additional support from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

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New Works: 06.2
Kurator: Yuko Hasegawa

mit Luz Maria Sanchez, Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger, Do-Ho Suh