Do-Ho Suh
30 April – 5 June 2004
Opening reception Friday, 30 April, 6-8 pm
Lehmann Maupin would like to announce an exhibition of Paratrooper-I, a new sculptural installation by Do-Ho Suh. This will mark the artist’s third solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin.
More than 3,000 different signatures– names of family, friends and acquaintances collected from personal journals and exhibition guest books– have been hand-stitched onto a thin, suspended layer of linen for Paratrooper-I. The long, pink, loose threads extending from each name are bound together and held by a small, polished stainless steel paratrooper standing atop a concrete base. The figure tugs at the threads as if collecting a deflated or caught parachute.
Paratrooper-I explores notions of human relationships, displacement, personal history and personal space. The paratrooper acts as a metaphor for being dropped into and surviving amidst a new environment, and thus, his reliance on his parachute for a safe landing is key. The singular threads in the work, none of which touch another, bind and relate the isolated figure to the individuals represented by the signatures. These strands become deliberate lifelines equally responsible for the fate and existence of the individual.
Do-Ho Suh was born in 1962 in Seoul, Korea. He received his MFA in sculpture from Yale University and BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has had solo exhibitions at Whitney Museum of America Art at Phillip Morris, the Serpentine Gallery, Seattle Art Museum, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, among other venues, and most recently at the ArtSonje Center in Seoul Korea. Suh was also invited to participate in the 49th Venice Biennale. Suh’s work is included in numerous museum collections including the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Shirazeh Houshiary
30 April – 5 June 2004
Opening reception Friday, 30 April, 6-8 pm
Lehmann Maupin would like to announce an exhibition of new drawings by Shirazeh Houshiary. This will be the artist's third exhibition at the gallery.
The surfaces of Houshiary's drawings are meticulously constructed of innumerable fine marks, accumulating into expansive fields, auras, and halos. The layering and build up of these repeated marks create a deep and immersive drawing surface, whose radiant bands and shapes are suggestive not only of light and its absence, but also of spatial depth and the emanation of sound, breath, and vapor. The abundant, repetitive marks also recall writing and script in addition to notions of a chant or a mantra.
Houshiary will also be presenting Breath, a collaboration with architect Pip Horne, as part of Creative Time\'s Art on the Plaza at the Ritz-Carlton New York in Battery Park. The work, a limestone-brick tower that emits different religious chants continuously from dawn until dusk, will be presented from May 4, 2004 through January 2005.
Shirazeh Houshiary was born and raised in Iran and moved to London in 1974 to study at Chelsea School of Art. Initially recognized for her sculpture, Houshiary emerged with the "New Object" sculptors in the 1980s. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Camden Arts Centre in London, and the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, among others, and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994. The artist continues to work and live in London.
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