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For immediate release
SPACE
I: HANNES KATER
September 20 - October
12, 2003
Opening reception:
Saturday, September 20, 6 - 9 pm
Method performance by
Hideki Nakazawa, September 27, 7 pm
Goliath Visual Space is pleased to
launch the fall season with new site-specific installations by Hannes Kater and
Hideki Nakazawa in their recently renovated and expanded space in Greenpoint,
Brooklyn.
Space
I:“Say hi to the seven possibilities of drawing” (working
title) is a wall drawing installation by Hannes Kater and marks
his first solo exhibition in the United States. Over the past ten years, the
German artist has developed a personal iconography of drawing by producing
made-to-order drawings, based upon short written anecdotes submitted to the
artist by viewers. He, in turn, ponders the stories and reinvents them, the
aggregate of which is an individual 2-D semiology or ‘pictionary’. Hannes Kater
thus names himself a drawing generator, whose large 3-D
installations, as in Goliath’s space, are a dynamic macrocosm of the
constellations of thought and interpretation already produced on paper, drawn
directly on the walls and augmented by styrofoam cut-outs.
See www.hanneskater.com
Space
II: the Japanese artist, Hideki Nakazawa,
presents new work in accord with the principles of his “method”, which
advocates logical systems of thinking and rendition rather than an emotional
approach to making and interpreting art. A fixed number of pulleys cause ropes
to curve at fixed times, which are statically pulled by a fixed number of
sandbags. Tension is created by fragility, and boredom by pre-established
harmony. The artist’s intention here, however, is to present line drawings as
one hand of art history (the other being color paintings). The ropes represent
“line drawings” and nothing more, neither expressing human feeling nor artistic
intuition. For Nakazawa, art is not a method of expression; he believes the
method itself to be the purpose of artistic endeavor. He has thus been calling
himself a “methodicist” since 2000.
See www.aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa
Hannes Kater and Hideki Nakazawa are
artists-in-residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program
(ISCP) in New York.