mika rottenberg
videos and sculptures 2004-2008
For her first solo show in France, the young artist Mika Rottenberg (born 1976, lives and works in New York since 1991) presents her video installations in different spaces throughout la maison rouge.
Mika Rottenberg's videos portray production systems for which labour is provided exclusively by women whose body is both raw material and tool. She analyses, not without humour, notions of alienation and exploitation of the female body, drawing the spectator deep into these endlessly productive enterprises. She shows her videos inside installations that allude to the films by reproducing their decor.
Three of her most recent video installation will be on view: Tropical Breeze (2004), Dough (2005-2006) and Cheese (2008-2009).
Mika Rottenberg's work is part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (New York, USA) and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo, Norway). She was the winner of The Cartier Award at the 2006 Frieze Art Fair in London, and The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award in 2004. She's preparing a project for De Appel, Amsterdam (Netherlands).
Warhol TV
Andy Warhol, the Pope of Pop, had always been fascinated by television. A means of communication that was contemporary and massive. An ideal tool for artistic promotion, social promotion, for self-promotion.
It was his big dream to have his own television show. A program he would be in control of, but that would also allow him to have control over his own image.
As early as 1964 he made an imitation soap opera, to which he added real "adverts".
At the beginning of the 70s, he played around at producing telenovelas that were the reflection of his aesthetic and fantastical universe.
In 1979 he put together a small team who were in charge of creating TV programs to be aired on the brand-new New York Cable. This team, including Vincent Fremont, Don Munroe and Sue Etkin, createdFashion, a talk show devoted to the fashion world, followed by Andy Warhol's TV, a Factory style reality-TV show, before producing the famous Andy Warhol's fifteen minutes, inspired by his renowned quote on the subject of fame.
This exhibition is a giant zap through Warhol's television universe; a journey through the artist's obsessions, his fascinations, his loves, his surprises and fears.
In 1987, the TV broadcast of Warhol's funeral service became the tragic final chapter in the life of the man who had so desired to be on screen, to be, as we say, on air.
Warhol's television no doubt represents the last unexplored aspect of this taboo-breaking artist's work.
Curator: Judith Benhamou-Huet
videos and sculptures 2004-2008
For her first solo show in France, the young artist Mika Rottenberg (born 1976, lives and works in New York since 1991) presents her video installations in different spaces throughout la maison rouge.
Mika Rottenberg's videos portray production systems for which labour is provided exclusively by women whose body is both raw material and tool. She analyses, not without humour, notions of alienation and exploitation of the female body, drawing the spectator deep into these endlessly productive enterprises. She shows her videos inside installations that allude to the films by reproducing their decor.
Three of her most recent video installation will be on view: Tropical Breeze (2004), Dough (2005-2006) and Cheese (2008-2009).
Mika Rottenberg's work is part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (New York, USA) and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo, Norway). She was the winner of The Cartier Award at the 2006 Frieze Art Fair in London, and The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award in 2004. She's preparing a project for De Appel, Amsterdam (Netherlands).
Warhol TV
Andy Warhol, the Pope of Pop, had always been fascinated by television. A means of communication that was contemporary and massive. An ideal tool for artistic promotion, social promotion, for self-promotion.
It was his big dream to have his own television show. A program he would be in control of, but that would also allow him to have control over his own image.
As early as 1964 he made an imitation soap opera, to which he added real "adverts".
At the beginning of the 70s, he played around at producing telenovelas that were the reflection of his aesthetic and fantastical universe.
In 1979 he put together a small team who were in charge of creating TV programs to be aired on the brand-new New York Cable. This team, including Vincent Fremont, Don Munroe and Sue Etkin, createdFashion, a talk show devoted to the fashion world, followed by Andy Warhol's TV, a Factory style reality-TV show, before producing the famous Andy Warhol's fifteen minutes, inspired by his renowned quote on the subject of fame.
This exhibition is a giant zap through Warhol's television universe; a journey through the artist's obsessions, his fascinations, his loves, his surprises and fears.
In 1987, the TV broadcast of Warhol's funeral service became the tragic final chapter in the life of the man who had so desired to be on screen, to be, as we say, on air.
Warhol's television no doubt represents the last unexplored aspect of this taboo-breaking artist's work.
Curator: Judith Benhamou-Huet
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