Added: Apr 2, 2011
Author: AnnetGelinkGallery
Duration: 9:11
In the first of a series of 'Conversation Pieces', in which Rudi Fuchs talks with an artist about one of their works, Rudi Fuchs meets with Ryan Gander to discuss 'You ruin everything (The economy of zero's)', on the occasion of the artists 4th solo exhibition at Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam.Rudi Fuchs (Eindhoven, 1942) is a Dutch art historian. Among other things he became director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven in 1975. From 1984 until 1990, he was the artistic director of the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Turin. From 1987 until 1993, he was director of the Haags Gemeentemuseum. And in 1993, he was director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam until 2003.He is the writer of numerous internationally acclaimed publications and articles.Ryan Gander (1976, Chester, England) feels at ease within an ever-expanding universe of media. His work ranges from installations, sculptures and photographs to performative lectures, publications, inventions and interventions. Gander examines the conditions of art production and the cognitive process of the perception of art. His body of works forms a labyrinth of inter-related narratives often based on real incidents or characters or existing artworks. 'Absence' plays a central role in Gander's work and lends the works an enigmatic aura. It invites the viewer to re-establish a story's hidden character or an object's possible function and by that illuminates the process of making meaning of a work of art.Having completed a research residency at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, Gander participated in the artists' residency program of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. His recent projects and exhibitions include Intervals, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, US; The Happy Prince, Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza at the southeast corner of Central Park, NYC, US; Manifesta 8, Murcia, SP; Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin IT; Double Bind, Villa Arson, Nice, FR; YU-UN Viewing Room, Tokyo, JP; Faint to Black, Henninsen Contemporary, Copenhagen, DM; Publics and Counterpublics, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, SP.Gander has published a number of books. Among which a TV script 'Appendix, Appendix, A Proposal for a TV Series by Ryan Gander and Stuart Bailey' (JPR Ringier, 2007, together with Stuart Bailey) and a recent monograph, entitled Catalogue Raisonnable Vol: 1 co-published by JRP|Ringier and Thea Westreich/Ethan Wagner Publications.Ryan Gander won numerous prestigious prizes, among others the Zürich Art Prize (2009), the ABN Amro Art Price (2006), the Baloise Art Statements of the Art Basel (2006) and the Dutch 'Prix de Rome' (2003). Alongside his artistic production, Gander is a visiting lecturer at a selection of art schools within Europe and writes regularly for art and design periodicals.The exhibitions runs from 02.04 through 04.06.2011.
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