Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Sayre Gomez, Julia Haller, James Krone, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Stefan Müller, Amanda Ross-Ho, Henning Strassburger
curated by Marc LeBlanc
Unfinished Season was curated to include artists whose work was representative of a 'radical epistemology' – those nearly unconscionable systems for unanswerable questions regarding the meaning of art.
In The Host and the Cloud, a live experiment was carried out over the course of one year in an abandoned ethnographic Museum in Paris. A group of people were exposed to live situations that appeared accidentally in the entire building. The Host and the Cloud is a ritual of separation in which the influences of a culture were exorcized, brought to contingency, by a self-generating operation. Some witnesses invited to enter the building were left alone within the unfolding experiment. In parallel the event was filmed.
This group of paintings presented in the exhibition feature indifferent women in languid poses. Although inspired by the classical figure of the muse portrayed indoors, the women are organised in surrealist angles. Placed in different interior settings, they evoke the artifice of theatrical backdrops, a motif that is extended in the wallpaper installation.
The centerpiece of this exhibition is a large-scale house comprised of panes of glass, welded steel, and re-purposed wood flooring. The piece contains many of the furnishings of a functional domicile but remains ambiguous about its habitability. Extensively re- configured and evolved from its original manifestation at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX, Fischer's Good Weather (Glass House) vacillates between utilitarian architecture and fine art object, reconstituting industrial-strength detritus with the outward appearance of fragile elegance.
Catharine Ahearn, Bjorn Amre, Lucas Blalock, Borden Capalino, Dan Finsel, Charlotte Hammer, Matt Heckert, Nolan Hendrickson, Gavin Kenyon, Andra Ursuta, Margaret Weber