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March2011
Agathe Snow: All Access World
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin until 30 March
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin until 30 March
BERLIN. All Access World, a new cycle of works by Agathe Snow, will be presented in an exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, until March 30, 2011. It will form the sixteenth commission in an ambitious series launched in 1997 by Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to facilitate the creation of major new projects by contemporary artists.
The exhibition takes as its subject the world’s monuments, landmarks, and historical sites, focusing on the ways they shape collective memory and serve as potent touchstones of national identity. Snow explores how monuments could jettison these didactic aspects in favor of a supple multiplicity that would increase their relevance to contemporary life and make them vessels of genuine cultural exchange. This utopian ambition is articulated through her establishment of All Access World, a fictional organization that subjects monuments to an irreverent process of appropriation and transformation, reimagining them as consumer products that can be customized to reflect individual tastes, interests, and experiences.
All Access World will exemplify the artist’s multivalent creative approach, immersing visitors in a vividly realized environment that encompasses sculptures, wall collages, video works, and interactive performances. Snow perceives monuments as exaggerated sculptural objects composed of geometric shapes such as pyramids, domes, and columns, and she has appropriated these archetypal forms to construct a series of new, mix-and-match creations that will be presented in the temporary All Access World “showroom” at Deutsche Guggenheim. Visitors will be invited to physically engage with these sculptures and freely reposition them on a floor emblazoned with a distorted world map, allowing the exhibition to be continually reconfigured. A series of large-scale collages depicting monuments in the All Access World inventory will form the backdrop to this shifting tableau, while a suite of video works will present direct encounters with the iconic structures Snow has been studying.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue conceived by the artist to function as a consumer guide from which imagined customers can design their own monuments in a range of sizes and materials, accessorized with special features. A welcome text by the artist and a series of collaged “samples” illuminate the possibilities contained within the All Access World brand.
The exhibition takes as its subject the world’s monuments, landmarks, and historical sites, focusing on the ways they shape collective memory and serve as potent touchstones of national identity. Snow explores how monuments could jettison these didactic aspects in favor of a supple multiplicity that would increase their relevance to contemporary life and make them vessels of genuine cultural exchange. This utopian ambition is articulated through her establishment of All Access World, a fictional organization that subjects monuments to an irreverent process of appropriation and transformation, reimagining them as consumer products that can be customized to reflect individual tastes, interests, and experiences.
All Access World will exemplify the artist’s multivalent creative approach, immersing visitors in a vividly realized environment that encompasses sculptures, wall collages, video works, and interactive performances. Snow perceives monuments as exaggerated sculptural objects composed of geometric shapes such as pyramids, domes, and columns, and she has appropriated these archetypal forms to construct a series of new, mix-and-match creations that will be presented in the temporary All Access World “showroom” at Deutsche Guggenheim. Visitors will be invited to physically engage with these sculptures and freely reposition them on a floor emblazoned with a distorted world map, allowing the exhibition to be continually reconfigured. A series of large-scale collages depicting monuments in the All Access World inventory will form the backdrop to this shifting tableau, while a suite of video works will present direct encounters with the iconic structures Snow has been studying.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue conceived by the artist to function as a consumer guide from which imagined customers can design their own monuments in a range of sizes and materials, accessorized with special features. A welcome text by the artist and a series of collaged “samples” illuminate the possibilities contained within the All Access World brand.
Arc de Triomphe, 2010
Agathe Snow
(Mixed-media collage,
48 x 33 cm)
Photo:Kris McKay
© Agathe Snow
Leaning Tower of Pisa, 2010
Agathe Snow
(Mixed-media collage,
35 x 78 cm)
Photo:Kris McKay
© Agathe Snow
Gateway Arch, 2010
Agathe Snow
(Mixed-media collage,
51 x 94 cm)
Photo:Kris McKay
© Agathe Snow
Walls, 2010
Agathe Snow
(Mixed-media collage,
64 x 49 cm)
Photo:Kris McKay
© Agathe Snow
Columns, 2010
Agathe Snow
(Mixed-media collage,
48,3 x 33 cm)
Photo:Kris McKay
© Agathe Snow
Stamina: Gloria et Patria, 2008
Agathe Snow
(People, sound, and movement
Dimensions variable
Installation view: 2008 Whitney Biennial
Exhibition, Park Avenue Armory, New York
March 9–16, 2008)
Photo:Alex Brown Photography
© Agathe Snow
Twenty-Four (Yellow Brick Road), 2007
Agathe Snow
(Bricks, speakers, cable, pigment, concrete, and live flowers, with audio
Dimensions variable)
© Agathe Snow
Agathe Snow was born in Corsica in 1976 and lives and
works in New York. Her work balances visions of apocalypse and entropic decay with an earnest faith in the redemptive power of human ingenuity and community. Snow’s performances, ranging from carnivalesque banquets to dance marathons, operate as scenarios for uninhibited social exchange, always undertaken with a fierce conceptual commitment. Interactive elements and elaborate fictions also underpin her sculptural installations, which she fashions from an exuberant array of everyday objects and scavenged street debris. With the transformative addition of paint, plaster, and collage, she coaxes her materials and their attendant histories into evocative new forms that frequently develop and mutate over the course of an exhibition.
Snow has presented solo exhibitions at international institutions including the New Museum, New York, and the Jeu de Paume, Paris (both 2009). Her work has been included in numerous group shows at venues around the world, including the Migros Museum, Zurich; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; White Columns, New York; SculptureCenter, New York; the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y.; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, United Kingdom; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma; Saatchi Gallery, London; and the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Snow’s work also appeared in Performa 07 (in collaboration with Marianne Vitale) and the 2008 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, both in
New York.
works in New York. Her work balances visions of apocalypse and entropic decay with an earnest faith in the redemptive power of human ingenuity and community. Snow’s performances, ranging from carnivalesque banquets to dance marathons, operate as scenarios for uninhibited social exchange, always undertaken with a fierce conceptual commitment. Interactive elements and elaborate fictions also underpin her sculptural installations, which she fashions from an exuberant array of everyday objects and scavenged street debris. With the transformative addition of paint, plaster, and collage, she coaxes her materials and their attendant histories into evocative new forms that frequently develop and mutate over the course of an exhibition.
Snow has presented solo exhibitions at international institutions including the New Museum, New York, and the Jeu de Paume, Paris (both 2009). Her work has been included in numerous group shows at venues around the world, including the Migros Museum, Zurich; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; White Columns, New York; SculptureCenter, New York; the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y.; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, United Kingdom; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma; Saatchi Gallery, London; and the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Snow’s work also appeared in Performa 07 (in collaboration with Marianne Vitale) and the 2008 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, both in
New York.
About Agathe Snow
Berlin - March
ArtGuide - Museum
About Deutsche Guggenheim
On November 7, 1997, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank celebrated the public opening of the Deutsche Guggenheim, a 350-square-meter exhibition space designed by American architect Richard Gluckman and located on the ground level of Deutsche Bank’s Berlin offices, a historic building on Unter den Linden, a major avenue in what was formerly East Berlin. Now after more than a decade, the Deutsche Guggenheim is widely regarded by both locals and visitors from around the world as one of the most exciting and experimental art museums in Berlin. The Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank have recently reaffirmed their mutual commitment to collaborate on programming and exhibitions at the Deutsche Guggenheim.
On November 7, 1997, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank celebrated the public opening of the Deutsche Guggenheim, a 350-square-meter exhibition space designed by American architect Richard Gluckman and located on the ground level of Deutsche Bank’s Berlin offices, a historic building on Unter den Linden, a major avenue in what was formerly East Berlin. Now after more than a decade, the Deutsche Guggenheim is widely regarded by both locals and visitors from around the world as one of the most exciting and experimental art museums in Berlin. The Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank have recently reaffirmed their mutual commitment to collaborate on programming and exhibitions at the Deutsche Guggenheim.
Coliseum/ Sydney Opera House/
Agathe Snow
(Mixed-media collage,
49,5 x 131 cm)
Photo:Kris McKay
© Agathe Snow
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