THE NIGHT by Kunsthalle Zurich 'goes Ricardo'
Kunsthalle Zürich goes Ricardo! This year's 'NIGHT' is very different and we're embracing it.
Until December 20, 2020, discover 25 unique artworks donated by artists to support Kunsthalle Zurich, available to buy on www.ricardo.ch. Each lot has been staged individually by a friend of the Kunsthalle.
This is how it works:
1. Register on Ricardo.
2. Enter the maximum sum you wish to bid, and Ricardo will automatically bid up to that sum for you.
3. If you are outbid, you will get an email. Then you can further up your bid.
Of course you can also bid in small increments. Every morning as you drink your coffee, or, better still, in the evening with a glass of wine in hand. Scroll through the lots here!
If you would rather not bid yourself, Kunsthalle will happily do so for you! Please contact Barbara Gerber at gerber@kunsthallezurich.ch. They will of course operate in strict confidence.
Below are some of our faves...
1. Steve McQueen
The year of Steve McQueen’s solo presentation at Kunsthalle Zürich, he also won the Turner Prize. A high point in most careers, this only prefigured McQueen’s segue into feature films – though remaining one of the most influential artists of his generation. His 2013 film 12 Years a Slavewon 9 Oscars, the first film by directed and produced by a black filmmaker to win Best Picture. Back in 1999, Pink Nails was pasted multiple times along the walls of the Kunsthalle, a key element of an exhibition that worked sparingly with colour and sound.
2. Jasmine Gregory
A busy year for Jasmine Gregory included an appearance in the Kunsthalle Zurich 'Summer of Suspense' exhibition. Gregory avails herself of any tricks of the trade of painting she wishes to and merrily mashes up historic exemplars and heavily mediated contemporary images. Beholden to no-one, her paintings can be joyful, sarcastic, kitsch and critical. Here the work captures the petrified grimace of a young professional, performing himself or herself.
3. Paulina Olowska
Naughty Nymphs comes from Paulina Olowska’s most recent work series, in which she started a dialogue with the exhibition of neoclassical sculptures in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection. Olowska pits her own critical interpretation against a mythological and idealised manifestation of the female body. For this she avails of the language of 1970s ‘porno chic’ as established by the French Emmanuelle films or the women’s soft-core magazine Viva: soft-focus, explicit scenes of seduction, naked skin and a moan...
4. Phyllida Barlow
"Drawing, like my use of materials and processes, can be expedient. It’s a way I can inform myself of what is needed to make a piece of work, quite literally what materials are required. Is it to be lengths of timber, rolls of fabric, sheets of ply, polystyrene, plaster, cement, or what? Drawing is a way to work things out. But then it can flip into being a means of recalling glimpses of objects, places, spaces and even time. Memory is a wonderfully inaccurate resource. Drawing from memory is not about trying to be exact. It’s about telling a lie, enjoying the half remembered and distorting something into what I would like it to be."
Phyllida Barlow speaking to Nicholas Cullinan, 2011
5. Shamiran Istifan & Roman Selim Khereddine
This winter, Shamiran Istifan and Roman Selim Khereddine transformed the off-space al vista into a cock-fighting arena in miniature. Plastic chairs bear witness to the popularity of the entertainment, a trophy to what might be at stake. But the arena is empty, making viewers question their expectations.
Who is the audience? What is the spectacle?
6. Aspen Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3
Andy Warhol's legendary exhibition in a box from 1966, or is it a newspaper as an exhibition, or is it gateway drug for young collectors and ephemera junkies, or just: be fabulous! With works by, among others, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith... The contents are complete!
7. John Armleder
Red brain made of wax plus wick equaling candle. The artwork is an unlimited edition and was sold at Art Basel in 2004 at the booth of John Armleder/ECART. Other candles came from the likes of Sylvie Fleury, Wade Guyton, Balthazar Lovay, Mai-Thu Perret, Olivier Mosset. The „candle sale“ was held in honor of the 10-year anniversary of the to this day still functioning and active exhibition space Forde in Geneva.
8. General Idea
"We moved into history, occupied images, emptied their meaning and reduced them to pods. Then we filled these pods with glamor, the creamy cream puff innocence of hollow heads, the terrible silence of shark fins that cut through oily waters." The subversive appropriation of works and formats from high and popular culture by the group was groundbreaking, as was their radical treatment of the idea of the collective with autonomous forms of distribution that ran counter to the usual methods of distribution and marketing.
General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1967 to 1994.
9. Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
Lot of 20 never been worn Kunsthalle Zurich party event masks. Exclusive benefit production, new with tags. Numbered and initialed with stickers on reverse in an edition of 100 party masks. Good for rave, costume ball, wall decoration. All tomorrow’s parties concept mask. Swiss logo mask Screen-printed in France with Heidi cartoon logos and 2020 graphics. Design by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy.
