30 May 2011

Blue Curry and Marie Voignier at NKV Kunstverein Wiesbaden

BLUE CURRY / STRANGER THAN PARADISE
Blue Curry (*1974, Nassau, the Bahamas) examines the 'western' fantasies and stereotypes of remote places in the world. His sculptures and installations combine every-day and natural objects which have been removed from their familiar context and recoded again. The artist threads floppy disks on diving spears and presents them as if they were a recent ethnographical find. Nautical buoys are decorated with rhinestones, transforming them in to fashion objects, far from their original function.
Blue Curry bridges the seriousness of the scientific argumentation over culture versus nature with ironical humour. Thus he creates a new authentic culture, enriched with a fetishist exotic component. In this sense his work becomes a subtle criticism of the ambiguity of the western view, balancing between an attitude of alleged cultural superiority and the yearning desire for primitivism.

MARIE VOIGNIER / HEARING THE SHAPE OF A DRUM
Marie Voigniers (*1974, Ris-Orangis) film focuses the media outburst following the lawsuit known as the 'Amstetten Monster' It shows the gathering of hundreds of journalists and technical teams waiting for something to happen. As the proceedings were held behind closed doors, the press is presented with a major difficulty: the absence of images. Beyond the observation of story making at all costs, where nothing is known nor seen, the film also questions the role of the artist, using the same tools of production as the journalists.

STUDENTS DISCOVER CONTEMPORARY ART
Based on Blue Curry's exhibition / Stranger than Paradise a group of students from Wiesbaden will work creatively and present their art work in an exhibition in the rooms of the NKV. They have already had the oppurtunity to meet the artist to gather inspiration for their own projects.