curated by_Jan Verwoert: next to perplexed you. Magni Borgehed, Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison, Malin Gabriella Nordin, Lucy Stein

11.10.–14.11.2013

Exhibition View, Galerie Martin Janda, 2013
Photo: (c) Markus Wörgötter

Malin Gabriella Nordin
Untitled (sculptures), 2012
acrylic on wood

Malin Gabriella Nordin
Untitled (sculptures), 2012
acrylic on wood
109 x 26 x 1 cm

Malin Gabriella Nordin
Untitled (sculptures), 2012
acrylic on wood
47 x 96,5 x 1 cm

Malin Gabriella Nordin
Untitled (sculptures), 2012
acrylic on wood
37 x 123 x 1 cm

Malin Gabriella Nordin
Untitled (sculptures), 2012
acrylic on wood
44 x 69 x 1 cm

Malin Gabriella Nordin
Untitled (sculptures), 2012
acrylic on wood
94 x 58 x 1 cm

Malin Gabriella Nordin
Untitled (sculptures), 2012
acrylic on wood
58 x 50 x 1 cm

Malin Gabriella Nordin
The ugliest sculpture I ́ve ever made, 2013
mixed media
37,5 x 50 x 7 cm

Malin Gabriella Nordin
Loop, 2011
mixed media
50 x 30 cm

Malin Gabriella Nordin
The discipline dog, 2012
mixed media
68,5 x 22 x 15 cm

Malin Gabriella Nordin
Untitled (shapes), 2012
ink on paper
100 x 69 cm

Malin Gabriella Nordin
Cards, 2011
acrylic, pencil, ink on paper
27 cards, each 8,7 x 5,7 cm

Magni Borgehed
Untitled, 2013
silk paint on canvas
60 x 50 cm

Magni Borgehed
Untitled, 2013
ink and gesso on canvas
50 x 60 cm

Magni Borgehed
Untitled, 2013
silk paint and ink on canvas
60 x 50 cm

Magni Borgehed
Untitled, 2013
gesso on canvas
60 x 50 cm

Magni Borgehed
Untitled (figuration series), 2013
ink, silk paint, gesso, glue and oil on canvas
179 x 145 cm

Lucy Stein
Untitled (asparagus season!), 2013
ink on paper
50 x 69,5 cm

Lucy Stein
Miserable Summer, 2013
ink on paper
50 x 35 cm

Lucy Stein
Babies and Fruit (idea for azulejos), 2013
ink and spray paint on paper
28 x 38 cm

Lucy Stein
Untitled (idea for azulejos), 2013
ink and spray paint on paper
38 x 28 cm

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Curated by_Jan Verwoert: next to perplexed you
Magni Borgehed, Sarah Forrest, Virginia Hutchison, Malin Gabriella Nordin, Lucy Stein

Opening: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 6 pm
Exhibition: October 11 - November 14, 2013

Painting. Reading. Writing. Are among things to be done around the house. But you could also: Prepare food. Pick a fight with your sister. Check for ghosts. Make love. Phone the printer. Or the house of commons. Tease the cat. Play some music. Not that these activities couldn't also be pursued in and from other places. Yet, in the house they may all happen, under one roof. So much can come to pass here on a single day that things feel like they happen not after, but next to one another, in parallel, at once.

Next to: Adjacency. Not history. Though it may be written in the process — of talking over breakfast, lunch, dinner. Peacefully perhaps. But not necessarily so. For politics sit across the table from you while art, literature and other troubles occupy the chairs next to yours. Members of the extended family. No enemies as such. But that won't already make them friends. Devils at your table. Lovers on the porch. Kobolds in the garden. Siblings all around.

Life at the Bell's? Virginia moody and Vanessa painting or getting some etchings done: for the dust jackets of Virginia's books, published, next to Freud's, by the Hogarth Press, the publishing house the Woolfs ran from home. Jackets are wrappers: they wrap pictures around poetry, painting around prose; they wrap up abstraction and narration into a thing (book) to be put into circulation, for shaping the modern condition, maybe.

Taking its cue from the zany congenial wit of Vanessa Bell's jacket designs for Woolf's books, the exhibition next to perplexed you shows the work of artists practicing adjacency: painting is in the house with patterning and object-making for Magni Borgehed, it is wrapped up in an imbroglio of color alchemy by Lucy Stein, it lives among ghosts amidst rocks with Malin Gabriella Nordin, and is but a philosopher's stone’s throw away from the concrete poetry and prose by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison, set in letters cast from lead objects they made and then melted down. The medium? A means for making adjacent worlds brush up against each other in a house where ink is sister to paint.

Jan Verwoert

curated by_vienna 2013 pursues the diverse questions that are currently connected with the medium of painting. At the invitation of departure – The Creative Agency of the City of Vienna 20 galleries for contemporary art show exhibitions that were conceived by 20 international curators.