In her sculpture, Donnelly has for some time worked in marble, the most highly charged material in art history. Ranging as it does from video works, classical drawings, textual works, audio installations, and photographs to impressive performances, its very variety is an obstacle to possible interpretation. They have almost never been adequately described or made a part of current artistic discourse. The works of the American artist Trisha Donnelly (born 1974) have always been invested in a comprehensive inscrutability. On the one hand they go back to opened wall elements like those found in peasant architecture, and on the other to decorative elements as found in wall reliefs. The works Fibre fibre, austère austère (2009) and imperia V (2012) are artistic adaptations of architectural elements. With its stylistic contrasts and use of “fake” materials, Carron’s work is provocative, questioning the difference between original and copy and elucidating tradition and identity. His pictorial language plays with the iconic symbols of this well-known tourist mecca, ironically altering them and making them his own. His works are inspired by his nearby surroundings and Valais homeland, where he grew up and lives and works to this day. Sculptural works are central to the work of Valentin Carron (born 1977). Here the larger-than-lifesize, totem-like object composed of various deformed rhombuses seems to almost stubbornly wish to assume personalities. These modified rhombuses serve as the starting point for the sculpture. In her work Bulloch makes use of computer software so as to deform the polyhedron. Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century mathematician, saw in them proof of the divine within the “world harmony.” Their combination of simplicity and complexity has always fascinated architects and artists as well. There is a long tradition of interest in this geometric shape: to Plato polyhedrons represented ideal universal building blocks. In the exhibited work, Heavy Metal Stack of Six (Pink), the artist employs the form of the polyhedron. The work of Angela Bulloch (born 1966) is characterized by an interest in the ways systems of rules and organizational principles determine our behavior and structure our environment. The works exhibited are similar to children’s drawings, and in their reduced pictorial language follow the modernists in the direction of primitive art, yet with an ironic side glance at cartoons, which play a key role in Bradley’s œuvre. Starting from archetypal forms, Bradley constructs different groups of works. The American artist Joe Bradley (born 1975) presents a group of 12 charcoal drawings on paper. In the exhibition the three works are not presented in a separate room, but in an open space in dialogue with the works of other artists. A table with a chandelier above it, a silkscreen print on the wall, and folded-paper autumn leaves on the floor create an immersive environment based on the iconography of modernistic design. Boyce is known for his sculptural installations reminiscent of traditional public spaces-a playground, a pedestrian underpass, an abandoned swimming pool, or, as here, part of an elegant residential interior. Here, with his adaptations of everyday objects Boyce turned the ephemeral splendor of a Venetian palazzo into an atmospheric, poetic landscape. Martin Boyce (born 1967) is showing three works that together form a reconstruction of a room from his one-man exhibition No Reflections at the Venice Biennale in 2009.
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