Peter Welz

This first New York solo exhibition by the Berlin-based artist Peter Welz is part of a series of collaborations with choreographer William Forsythe that stems from their shared interest in the work of Samuel Beckett. In this new project, a video depicting Forsythe's physical interpretation of a written phrase derived from Beckett is projected onto an architectural construction. This structure’s contours, in turn, are Welz's transposition of Forsythe's movements into abstract three-dimensional form. Combining elements of video, sculpture, and drawing, the installation offers a complex meditation on both the physical and mental processes by which we perceive, and make sense of, the figure in space.

This exhibition is curated by Assistant Curator Matthew Lyons and Executive Director Debra Singer.

Peter Welz is a Berlin-based artist, born in 1972. He studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland; Cooper Union, NY; and the Chelsea School of Art in London. He has had exhibitions at, among many others, Musée du Louvre, Galerie de la Melpomène, Paris, France (2006); MIT, List Visual Art Centre, Boston, MA (2006); Museum für Gegenwartskunst | Museum of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (2006); The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA (2005); Kunst-Werke, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2001); Biennale, Berlin, Germany (2001); and ICA Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, England (2001). He won the Financial Grant from the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany, Kaiserring Förderpreis in 2005.

This show is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc. and is also made possible with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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Peter Welz
video-sculpture
Kuratoren: Matthew Lyons, Debra Singer