Stephen Vitiello @ IMO
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Mikael Olsson – Sodrakull Frosakull
In this project Olsson has delved into the legacy of Bruno Mathsson, one of Sweden’s most important Modernist designers and architects.
Frösakull is a house Mathsson both designed and lived in. Olsson has interacted with the remains of the house, and like Mathsson he has experimented with the house and its possibilities. The result is a collection of images which show us an interpretation of an architectonic legacy. Olsson has arranged and transformed the rooms into a stage, often using light, emptiness and shadow as the only props.
The Södrakull residence, which had been closed off since Mathsson passed away, is approached in a different way: as a voyeur. The interiors are photographed from the outside and through half-drawn curtains. Olsson is here a surreptitious observer rather than participator and the images reflect an outsider’s fettered view of a private domain.
In this body of work Olsson has created an interplay between presence and absence, inner meaning and representation. The images are marked both by intimacy and distance. Together they form a sort of portrait, as well as a chronicle of architecture, remembrance and aging. For this reason the photographs cannot be considered documentary but instead a very subjective depiction of Mathsson’s public and private legacy.
This project includes an impressive monograph, published by Steidl Verlag, to be released this year. The book includes texts by Beatriz Colomina, Hans Irrek and Helena Mattsson. Designed by Acne Art Department and Mikael Olsson.
Mikael Olsson was born in Lerum, Sweden, 1969. He studied at Högskolan för Fotografi at Göteborgs University, 1993-96, Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 1995 and History and Theory in the Department for Architecture, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola i Göteborg, 2001-02. The premier of the film “Kosta 3:30”, a work also concerning one of Mathsson’s residences made by Mikael Olsson, Andreas Roth and Carsten Nicolai, was held at Moderna Museet in 2006. The exhibition Södrakull Frösakull showed at the Hasselblad Center in Göteborg 2009. This is Mikael Olsson’s second exhibition at Galerie Nordenhake.
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Marie Lorenz
The Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, is pleased to present a solo show of the work of Marie Lorenz, titled SHIPWRECKS. With a boat as simultaneous subject and object, both a manifestation of the psyche and tool by which to wade through its tides, Marie Lorenz’s work circumnavigates uncertainty to heighten one’s awareness of place. In this show, Lorenz synthesizes real peril and sophisticated portrayal. A boat’s wreckage enters the physical space of the gallery revealing premonitions, requiems and all that stands between.
The centerpiece of the show is a video that documents Lorenz’s actual shipwreck off the coast of Italy last year. Shot from the capsized perspective, the shore is barely visible; the horizon flipped entirely on its side abstracts the heaving seascape. The only sound heard is that of a breath changing from a pant to a desperate choking. Put in the mind of climax; we think we are watching someone die. A rubbing of the recovered boat will hang in the gallery as an epitaph- at once the end and the sum. Like relics of an archeological find, a series of small collographs tie the work together. Each one is a miniature toy boat, smashed and printed. In effect, they are artifacts of representation, a peeled skin of three dimensional form. They are actual objects, but the toys themselves were representations. Flattened out and inked to define a subtle relief, the collographs call to mind a peeled abstraction of a Mercator projection.
Marie Lorenz’s artwork has long been about exploration and narrative. In her current and ongoing project “The Tide and Current Taxi”, Lorenz ferries people throughout New York in a handmade boat. She studies tidal charts of the harbor and uses the tidal and river currents to propel the boat. A blog that she publishes (tideandcurrenttaxi.org) tells the stories of each trip. In her own voice, they are parables about the changing city, parallels between web navigation and the real life navigation of Lorenz and her participants.
