PUBLIC SURFACE

Last week of UN PLACE

2011-06-26T02:04:00.000-07:00

In UN PLACE, Jakob Krajcik, Michael Kwiecinski, Susanne Persson, Kajsa Sandström, Jeffrey Tranchell and Penelope Umbrico meet in a kind of ethnological documentation. The separate pieces in the exhibition together form a perceived archive where the repetition of apparently unimportant and prosaic matters, movements and activities form a psychological investigation where accustomed meanings and hierarchies are upended and we are left with a rather dystopian image of beingness.

The exhibition will be open Sunday and by appointment until June 30.
Call or e-mail us to book an appointment at any time.

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agorafobi/agorafobia/agoraphobia

2011-06-26T01:40:00.000-07:00

a release of the book

agorafobi/agorafobia/agoraphobia

by
akcg (anna kindgren och carina gunnars)

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date: 27 June 2011 Monday

time: 6-8 pm

place: PUBLIC SURFACE

release price: SEK 160,-

more information: http://akcg.org/files/2011/04/akcg_omslag.gif

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Between 6 pm and 8 pm the interview film "the coordinator" (20 min) will be looped.

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Welcome!

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OEI Release

2011-06-04T05:59:00.000-07:00

Release på PUBLIC SURFACE onsdag 8 juni 18:30!

OEI editör presenterar:
Häftad serie n°2
Mellan eller En annan närhet
av Helena Eriksson

Medverkande: Helena Eriksson, Martin Högström m.fl.
Poesi, bildvisning, karneval, mingel och vin

Mellan eller En annan närhet är poeten Helena Erikssons nionde bok och tar sin utgångspunkt i maskbärandet – och i de masker och dräkter som s.k. felos uppträder i under karnevalen i Maceda i Galicien. Via Frankrike och poeten Claude Royet-Journoud hamnade Helena Eriksson 2010 på denna karneval. Boken är ursprungligen skriven på svenska men har i en tidigare form publicerats på galiciska som Entre ou A outra proximidade (Amastra-n-Gallar, 2010). Den innehåller även ett urval bilder ur Emilio Araúxos fotografiska dokumentation av karnevalen.

Mellan eller En annan närhet är den andra boken i OEI editörs ”Häftad serie”. Böckerna i denna chapbook-serie trycks i 200 exemplar och finns primärt tillgängliga vid själva releasen som samtidigt fungerar som distributionstillfälle. Ett högintensivt och koncentrerat publikations- och distributionsformat för ny svensk och översatt poesi mm.

Inträde: 60 kr. I priset ingår boken Mellan eller En annan närhet + ett nummer av OEI + vin. Endast kontanter. (Inkomsterna kommer att användas för att täcka kostnaderna för produktionen av boken, och lägga grunden till nästa bok i serien. Så var med och stöd Häftad serie på detta karnevaliska sätt!)

Välkomna!

http://www.oei.nu/

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Darger reviderad

2011-05-30T03:54:00.001-07:00

Performance / Reading
from the coming book »Darger reviderad»
by Leif Holmstrand and Jonas Örtemark
In collaboration with Drucksache and Radiowy

Wednesday June 1, 6 – 9 pm
The reading will begin at 7 pm

Welcome!

http://www.drucksache.se/
http://radiowy.se/

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PUBLIC SURFACE presents: UN PLACE

2011-05-24T07:18:00.000-07:00

UN PLACE
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a group show with:

JAKOB KRAJCIK
MICHAEL KWIECINSKI
SUSANNE PERSSON
KAJSA SANDSTRÖM
JEFFREY TRANCHELL
PENELOPE UMBRICO

Opens Sunday May 29, 3 - 5 p.m.
On view May 29 - June 26

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PICTURES OF PICTURES

2011-04-08T02:36:00.000-07:00

PUBLIC SURFACE presents:

KYLE KNODELL
PICTURES OF PICTURES

On view April 10 - May 8
Open Sundays, 1 - 4 p.m. or by appointment

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Release för OEI editörs nya publikationsserie “Häftad Serie”

2011-01-25T10:20:00.001-08:00

Välkommen till release för boken Folkets bio (OEI editör “Häftad Serie” #1) av Peder Alexis Olsson och Pär Thörn.

Poesi, projektioner, kritiska reflektioner och repliker

Medverkande: Beata Berggren, Magnus Bremmer, Jörgen Gassilewski, Peder Alexis Olsson, Pär Thörn, Christopher West och Anna Ådahl.

Mingel och varma drinkar inomhus/utomhus.

Tid: Fredag 28 januari, kl. 18:00

BOKEN KOSTAR 60 KRONOR. TA MED KONTANTER!

Folkets bio är den första boken i OEI editörs nya "Häftad serie". Böckerna i denna chapbook-serie trycks i 200 exemplar och finns primärt tillgängliga vid själva releasen som samtidigt fungerar som distributionstillfälle. Ett högintensivt och koncentrerat publikations- och distributionsformat för ny svensk och översatt poesi mm.

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An Exhibition in a Package

2010-12-05T05:26:00.000-08:00

An Exhibition in a Package is a project initiated by Sara Ludvigsson, in collaboration with Adam Asnan, Nabil Ahmed, James Holcombe, Richard Owen, Kari Rittenbach and Joseph Clayton Mills/Adam Sonderberg.

Sara Ludvigsson has been working towards a realisation of an ‘exhibition in a package’ for Public Surface. An Exhibition in a Package is a digital file that contains all the necessary components of an exhibition, sent to the gallery for us to unpack, print and exhibit using our resources. The primary object for consideration is the premise of the package itself (ultimately, its efficacy), containing introduction, instructions, invitations, press release, e-mail addresses and 6 text-based descriptive ‘examples’ of works, to act as the artistic props in the model.

The exhibition is open November 28 - January 23

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THE PUBLIC SURFACE

2010-10-15T13:18:00.000-07:00

PUBLIC SURFACE presents:

THE PUBLIC SURFACE
SUSANNE PERSSON

Opens October 17, 1 - 4 p.m.
and will be on view until November 14

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Susanne Persson has created a visual enterprise where logos, matters, product design and historically and culturally important symbols are intertwined in a way that raises questions both of heritage and cultural relations and semiotics and the human process of creating meaning.

In two untitled mixed media works that are part of a series, elementary symbols, that historically have been used with both religious, political, artistic and commercial aims, are taken from packages for food and cleaning supplies. First isolated and magnified they are then painted on to prints of images from Persson's archives collected for their semiotic or symbolic value. The process at the same time points out and elucidate the symbol's values, as it renders them indecipherable. The collages become impossible riddles, heavy with signs they solicit a decoding, pointing to our linguistic and emotional need for creating meaning.

With Red Triangle, a triangular shape is blown up and covers one of the walls. The perfect shape, formerly a pristine logo, is made flaccid. The sculpture, carved out in foam rubber, bends from the shape of the room. Leaning against the wall, the triangular shape and its red color becomes a reminiscent of an ancient wall painting or poses as a remainder from a religious rite.

The as yet untitled installation on the floor consisting of 50 alabaster sculptures of dildos becomes a modern play with the phallus symbol. At once playing with the Greek idealizing statues of the male body, celebrating the beauty of man, but here leaving only the portrayed penis, using a replica of what's already a replica the sculpture also turns to ideas of reproduction and sexuality and yet becomes something else entirely where the portrayed body parts become separate from the body all together and is emphasized as symbol.

In White Series Persson is using the shapes of obsolete electrical and mechanical domestic appliances, where all other markers of identity is removed. The machines are combined in to new formations and covered in white paint they suggest both the ruin and the freshly formed new product alluding to cultural and consumption patterns.

Book an appointment to see the exhibition at 0705- 45 92 41 or publicsurface@gmail.com, or visit us Sundays between 1- 4 pm.

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Jacob Grönbech Jensen

2010-08-26T12:15:00.000-07:00

PUBLIC SURFACE presents:

RIT

Jacob Grönbech Jensen

An ongoing installation.

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http://www.grnbch.se/

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The exhibition will open August 29, 3 - 6 p.m.
and will be on view Aug 29 - Sep 26,
during which time it will continuously evolve and change form.

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Value Transformers: Yes You May Do as You Please

2010-05-07T01:56:00.000-07:00

MORGAN JONES
Value Transformers: Yes You May Do
as You Please

PUBLIC SURFACE is proud to present a solo show with the american artist Morgan Jones. In a series of animated vignettes ranging from 15sec to a little less than 3 minutes we are presented with a cavalcade of images of disparate subjects that together present a bizarre parade of life and death. Value Transformers: Yes You May Do as You Please is like a digital memory bank infected by a virus.

In an interrelated, yet indeterminate stream of images we are met by disaster, consumption and the idea of the apocalypse as redemption. With a sense of being stuck in the memory of something rather than the thing itself we are led through this cathartic dream. Like a Shaman Jones enters a supernatural realm to alleviate us from our traumas.

Jones presents us with heavily manipulated digital backgrounds that continuously morph in shape, texts produced with the use of stream of consciousness, images from web archives pertaining to search themes such as nature, the internet itself, disease, waste and disaster in different capacities (one is from a dermatology website, another depicts blots of blood and cocaine on the floor), while other videos refer to blank space and basic raw materials such as paper in the form of wood, trees, sawdust and packaging. This is intermingled with abstract videos, pixelated and built up like fractals, mimicking mathematical and biological structures, together with short vignettes of real space. We see footage of a US truck stop in the desert, a giant meteor crater, a sea side village.

Jones is both a minimalist and a maximalist, presenting us with an inner/outer perspective where personal and global sentiments are merged. With themes of chaos, freedom, mathematics and transformation Value Transformers: Yes You May Do as You Please functions as an exorcism of the mind.

http://www.morganrushjones.com/mineral.html

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The exhibition will open May 9, 4 - 6 p.m.
and will be on view May 9 - June 6

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Henning Lundkvist + Christina Ouzounidis

2010-03-21T08:12:00.000-07:00

PUBLIC SURFACE presents:

Henning Lundkvist
New Time Based Works

Come by thursday March 25 for the opening, 6 - 10 pm.

During the opening night Förskjutningar by Henning Lundkvist & Christina Ouzounidis will be performed in three parts at 7, 8 & 9 pm.

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New Time Based Works (2010) - Henning Lundkvist

skådespelare: Petra Hultberg
text, ljud, iscensättning: Henning Lundkvist
25.03.10 - 25.04.10

I Henning Lundkvists nya verk New Time Based Works, producerat för utställningen på Public Surface, har Lundkvist helt tömt utställningsrummet så när som på den högtalare som presenterar det ljudbaserade verket. Men inte heller högtalaren är i egentlig mening placerad i galleriet, utan ställs endast fram då besökare kommer in i gallerirummet för att sedan, efter presentationen av det ett par minuter långa verket, direkt plockas bort igen i väntan på nästa uppspelning. Verket, liksom utställningen i sig, existerar därför endast under de tider som det spelas upp, endast vid de tillfällen då det betraktas och upplevs av besökaren, och kan därmed till viss del sägas låna sin form från teaterföreställningen eller radioteatersändningen. Referenser till teater, inte minst till radioteater och hörspel, är också ständigt återkommande i lundkvists arbeten som ofta har beröringspunkter med en tyskspråkig tradition av experimentell radioteater och litterära ljudverk. Det är också på idén om ett “här och nu”, en av teaterföreställningens viktigaste grundförutsättningar, som New Time Based Works grundar både sin form och sitt innehåll. I detta “här och nu” kan verket sägas vara helt självupptaget av sin egen utsträckning i tid, av det nu i vilket det existerar. Det bygger upp ett slags slutet system av det självrefererande nu som sammanfaller med verket självt, och av en labyrintisk text där varje moment ger ny betydelse åt sitt nyss förflutna.

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Förskjutningar I-III (2010) - Henning Lundkvist & Christina Ouzounidis

skådespelare: Sandra Huldt
text: Christina Ouzounidis
ljud: Henning Lundkvist
25.03.10, kl 19, 20 & 21

Förskjutningar I-III är ytterligare ett steg i konstnären Henning Lundkvist och dramatikern Christina Ouzounidis samarbete. Det består av en serie hörspel som arbetar med relationen mellan texten och det akustiska. Hörspelen vill undersöka temporala och geografiska förskjutningar, bland annat utrymmet mellan avsikt och perception. Hörspelet kommer att bestå av tre delar, utvecklade ur varandra. Varje uppförande kommer att vara en iscensatt ljudupptagning som också ligger till grund för nästkommande uppförande, där texten enligt förutbestämda strukturer bryts sönder mer och mer. Ljudupptagningarna görs med delvis förarbetade ljud, en skådespelare och publik. Alla tre kommer att uppföras under en och samma kväll på galleri public surface i stockholm för att därefter föras samman till ett ljudverk som ska framföras på textival i göteborg 27 mars. Verket kommer även att publiceras på radiowy.se senare under våren. Christina Ouzounidis (f. 1969) arbetar som dramatiker och regissör och är en av de drivande bakom teatr weimar i malmö. Hon tilldelades 2009 års Mankell-stipendium och är under året aktuell med ett gästspel av sin föreställning Heterofil på c/o Stadsteatern och med en iscensättning av ida börjels diktsamling konsumentköplagen på Helsingborgs Stadsteater samt med en nyskriven pjäs på teater Galeasen.

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Human Achievements

2010-02-18T07:42:00.000-08:00

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PUBLIC SURFACE presents:
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Human Achievements

PHIL BIRCH
PAUL CHAN
BRIAN CLIFTON
BON DUKE
SUSANNE PERSSON

An attempt to break as many Guinness world records as possible in three hours.
Banners awaiting their moment. Nations of product. Declaring commercial liberty. Hear hear evangelic sales.
SEX DEATH FLOWERS
Phase transitions in the Meaning Field.
cum yes yes yes more more do it

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Opens February 21, 3 - 6 p.m.

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Brian Clifton & Morgan Jones

2009-12-12T09:56:00.000-08:00

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PUBLIC SURFACE presents:
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MORGAN JONES
arithmetic sculpture

BRIAN CLIFTON
I want to believe in something. My stepfather recently passed away. NFS. ‘Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind’. Self-stylization distorts a genuine personality. Feeling openly influenced by someone, and this being a sign of love. February 2008. My sense of self as formless and relative. Compassion. I enjoy nice lighting

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Opens December 13, 1 - 6 p.m.
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http://www.briancliftonstudio.com/
http://www.morganrushjones.com/
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The Modern extended

2009-11-07T06:53:00.000-08:00

The Modern will be extended until November 15
Make an appointment at any time or come by Sundays between 1 & 6 p.m
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The Modern
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a group show with:

JEFFREY TRANCHELL
JACOB GRØNBECH JENSEN
KYLE KNODELL
SUSANNE PERSSON
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”Art has shown that it is a question of determining the relations. It has revealed that the forms exists only for the creation of relationships; that forms create relation and that relations create forms. In this duality of forms and their relations neither takes precedence.” – Piet Mondrian, “Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art (Figurative Art and Nonfigurative Art)”

”These visions call themselves new planes, because of their meeting in a new unknown (the plane of non-agreement). [---] it will pass from its false absolute, through a series of relative values, in to a new absolute value, true and poetic.” – Max Ernst, “What is the mechanism of Collage”

”Reason has robbed man of his roots. He leads a tragic life.” – Jean Arp, “Abstract Art, Concrete Art”

The Modern

Ever since it emerged in Europe between the two world wars, artists have sought to relate to modernism and it's different expressions. For this exhibition Public Surface is proud to present a group of artists that unite in an exploration of modernist traditions.

Having in common the usage of montage or assemblage and a play with surface and the plane of field, the show includes work that in different ways work with plasticity and the extension of visual limits.

All artists work with various collage techniques, creating new meanings through a poetic language built by remnants from the everyday.

Jeffrey Tranchell's collages consists of magazine pages that are "price marked" with tags like the ones to be found on fruits in the grocery stores in the US. The popular theme in the three pieces, the usage of the fashion industry and the enhancing of that industry's commercial tone, got a pop art quality, but Tranchell is above all engaged in a play with surface and dimensions. By sticking price tags on the prints Tranchell focus on the pure form of the two elements. The rectangle forms in bright solid colors break down the illusion of depth in the photograph that makes up the ad, and stubbornly points to the two-dimensional surface.

Similarly, Susanne Persson's untitled print shows us a photograph, taken from a website where people post machines for sale, with a part of the photograph blocked out. A white rectangle, stretched across the surface negates the image. While breaking down the illusive elements that constitutes photography, it simultaneously creates new ones.

In his digital collages, Kyle Knodell creates optical illusions simply by pasting one photograph on top of another. Like the abstract expressionists he acknowledges and challenges the eyes physical procedure. The three-dimensional scenes in the photographs of building materials scattered in different rooms are in the process of viewing transformed into two-dimensional blocks of color.

In this remix of modernism the artists sample and play with artistic leftovers. Weaving together disparate ideas they create collages not only in a physical sense but also intellectually. Whereas the modernist period gave us clear definitions and opposed tendencies, they are here merged together. In the modernist tradition the figurative and non-figurative where held separate as two different ways to approach and view the world. Since then this separation has been dissolved. Now, everything is transformed into the same thing.

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The Modern

2009-10-03T10:22:00.000-07:00

PUBLIC SURFACE presents The Modern
a groupshow with:

JEFFREY TRANCHELL
JACOB GRØNBECH JENSEN
KYLE KNODELL
SUSANNE PERSSON

Join us for the opening this Sunday October 4, 4 - 6 p.m.

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Niklas Tafra Audio Walk

2009-09-12T07:12:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is the last day of Niklas Tafra's exhibition at PUBLIC SURFACE.

Also don't miss the chance to experience Tafra's magical audio walk through Stockholm. One person at a time the audience walk a pre-destined route, accompanied by a designated sound piece. To schedule a session contact the artist by mail at niklastafra@gmail.com or by telephone at +46(0)706357744.

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PUBLIC SURFACE presents: Niklas Tafra

2009-09-05T04:48:00.000-07:00

Opening reception at the gallery between 5 - 7.

Niklas Tafra

Hörlursläckagekonversation på gröna linjen, mellan Vällingby och Hässelby strand, tisdag den fjärde augusti 2009.
Headphone leakage conversation on the green line, between Vällingby and Hässelby strand, Tuesday the fourth of August 2009.

The show will be on view until September 13.

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PUBLIC SURFACE at Färgfabriken

2009-09-02T13:35:00.000-07:00

PUBLIC SURFACE kommer att finnas på plats på Färgfabriken på fredagkväll när tidningen People anordnar festligheter. Grupputställning med Jeffrey Tranchell, Kyle Knodell, Bon Nguyen, Nolan Simon och Susanne Persson, samt installation av Susanne inne i baren.

4 Sep, 21.00-03.00 Färgfabriken, Lövholmsbrinken 1

Kom förbi, och glöm inte att osa!
Osa till peoplefest@swdspublishing.se senast 3 september

Dj:s
Svarta rummet: Pjotr, Charles Gudagåfva, Nadja Chatti
Röda rummet: Peopleredaktionens bästa
Penthouse: People + Aplace

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Personal Pronouns

2009-08-28T04:14:00.000-07:00

This weekend Hanna Frostell of Personal Pronouns will create an installation at Public Surface as a part of Fashion Play's Modevandring. We will be open Saturday 12-5 p.m. and Sunday 12.30-6 p.m..

This weekend will also be the last chance to see Nolan Simon's Events and Characteristics!

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Nolan Simon, Showroom, I Wanna be a Hippy

2009-08-05T13:45:00.000-07:00

Two years ago Nolan Simon participated in Showrooms project in the Swiss Alps.

http://showroom.st/5/
http://sundaysnewyork.com/sept1.htm

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New York, Nolan Simon

2009-07-26T11:41:00.000-07:00

Public Surface will be closed for two weeks and will reopen August 9.
We're in New York to install a show:

http://www.aperture.org/gallery/

And to pick up art work for our next exhibition at Public Surface with Nolan Simon!

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Persson Clothing

2009-07-08T05:21:00.000-07:00

The Persson Clothing summer collection, for sale at Public Surface. All clothing created by hand in Sweden under high ethical and environmental consideration.

Come by and shop!

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Summer and a New Patio

2009-07-08T04:35:00.000-07:00

Public Surface has been taking some time off to celebrate summer and to move indoors (still under Liljeholmsbron.) This sunday we're opening up the new outdoor patio. The library and store will be open Sundays. Come by, have a coffee and sit down and browse through our collection of books!

Our next exhibition will open in August when the new gallery space will be ready.

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Kyle Knodell - Sediment, Sentiment

2009-06-11T03:53:00.000-07:00

Through creating different contexts and situations, from printing a traditional gelatin print of the blank layer in Photoshop to coloring walls and ceilings by filtering existing light sources, Kyle Knodell looks at how meaning is formed and constructed. His work roots in a process were ideas concerning the display and presentation of various and often disparate subjects join one-another, drawing attention to contradictions and misunderstandings that emerge during our construction of meaning and the failure of completely rational readings.

For the current exhibition, Knodell has installed a series of photographs, together with a video, in a physical context consisting of podiums and pedestals. The placement of the images in a sculptural three-dimensional context renders them as tactile objects that continuously refer back to themselves and their physical form. Knodell's installation dissolves the idea of the photograph as illusion and constant referent – and thus not truly existent form of being – and lets it become an object on its own physical terms.

The photographs function as triggers, unmoved movers who start a chain reaction and finally become a centre part in the “poetic entanglement of meanings” that is the final presentation.

The obscurity and complexity of the installation pushes us to refocus our view of the photographs. In relating the different – but, in their anonymity and their every-day-ness, intimately connected – elements Knodell presents us with a display of the fragility of matter that comments and questions our perception of reality.

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May 16th - Last Day of Preparation

2009-06-11T02:40:00.000-07:00

Kyle.
Jacob och Sara.
Johan, Magnus, Julia och Micke.
Erik och Jacob.

Tack alla!

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2009-06-05T13:25:00.000-07:00

From: kyle knodell
Date: 2009/5/12
Subject: Chatta med kyle knodell
To: blomkvist.erik@gmail.com

13:38 jag: how's it going?
13:52 kyle: hey!
i am writing about my work for you right now
13:53 i had to sleep out the time change
13:54 jag: great!
I have started to write the p.r. but it's quite hard to do it without speculating a lot
kyle: yea i understand
i am just trying to write down some of my basic ideas with the work for you
14:16 kyle: here is a start for you
14:17 kyle: i just emailed it let me know if you have any questions and i am going to look at it myself a bit longer
jag: sure
One thing immediately: Are the photographs your own?
I read that some of them are
kyle: um some are my own and some i take from other sources
jag: not interesting which.
not for me
14:23 kyle: so you are saying your are not interested in which is which
jag: While working with installations around the photographs, how do you relate to the "source"? Or do you?
14:25 Well, what I mean is, do you publish the origin of the photo?
14:26 kyle: ohh well i dont think i relate in a specific way. its more that i look at images as a plentiful source or maybe as preexisting readymades
14:28 jag: So you start around the photograph and install around them? metaphorically speaking
14:29 kyle: yes indeed
the photograph is at the root
14:31 but i look at the display and presentation of them as the final product
14:32 jag: Ok. While looking at the photographs I get a feeling of coincidence. That there is no "plan" behind them, or at least a very loose such. Is that so?
kyle: a poetic entanglement of meanings
jag: mm
kyle: yes they are loose
14:33 i like the sound of a poetic entanglement of meanings
jag: me too
very nice formulation
14:34 kyle: why thank you :)
14:36 i dont know how it fits in but i have also been thinking alot about how meaning is produced
or formed
jag: mm
14:37 I have written that the photographs are pictures of no interest, do you feel offended by that?
14:38 kyle: hmm
jag: And by that I don't mean that they are uninteresting
kyle: like they are of no interest to me?
14:39 jag: No, more like they don't carry any "inherent" values..
They are not directed in any way..
kyle: yea yea that sounds nice
14:43 i think that what the photograph did to images was to allow for the Banal, every day and the fleeting to be more closely looked at
14:45 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/00200/00242r.jpg
jag: like a trick? to bring people closer to the nothingness of reality?
kyle: yea exactly
14:46 the images usually share a formal relationship that Implies some importance but one finds they do not add up
14:47 jag: and the installations vs. the sole photograph? will there be a juxtaposition there or will you try to engrave the nothingness?
14:51 kyle: i think that for me there is a juxtaposition with the photographs and the installation because the photographs become almost opaque objects when put into the installation were as most photographs are looked at as a window to some other place. i look at the flatness of the photo by placing it in more of a sculptural 3D context which brings out the nothingness
14:52 does that answer your question?
14:53 jag: yes. it does.
14:54 very much so
kyle: great
brb
jag: brb?
kyle: sorry
14:55 jag: bra
kyle: I will be right back
going to have a smoke outside
jag: sure
14:59 kyle: ok im back
15:01 jag: good
15:02 kyle: do you have more questions?
jag: here is a rough draft:
Kyle A. Knodell – Sediment, Sentiment
In the subtlety and coincidence of things lies often the reality of life. To me, descriptions of reality often fail to promote an accurate picture of the world because they often seem to be occupied with doing just that. The quest for truthfulness and sincerity often tends to obscure more than enlighten, and life gets lost in naturalistic conformity.
Kyle Knodell’s work in general seems to be based in spontaneity, from the blank and empty PS frame blank layer to coloring of walls and ceilings filtering the gallery’s existing light sources. In a sense his work seems to root in a very organic process were an idea marks the starting point, a seed, but then are allowed to grow almost without interference. The spontaneity draws attention to contradictions and misunderstandings and the display that is the result of the process communicate a visualization of nothingness
The photographs used are pictures of no interest, they are not directed in any way. Some are stock photographs with drained sentimental values while some are the artists own. In the artwork they figure as a trigger, as the unmoved mover, who starts a chain reaction and finally becomes a centre part in the “poetic entanglement of meanings” that is the final presentation.
Within the walls of the gallery everything seems to be Art. And Art is historically a part of the top of the hierarchy of things. In Knodell’s work this hierarchy is broken down and questioned. The banality in the photographs together with the often minuscule installations around them juxtapose the basic elements of documentary photography, the window to some other place, with a more nuanced and interesting view on

15:14 kyle: hold on i am just looking this over
jag: sure
15:36 kyle: sorry i was also chatting with my mother
15:37 kyle: do you know when this needs to be printed?
or finalized
jag: no
not really
before sunday
15:38 kyle: ok because i think its a good start but some things might not be in rhythm with the work. so i think we should keep this and when i know more how the installation will be i will think about the changes.
15:39 there might be some specifics that might be good to touch on
jag: sounds good..
15:42 kyle: cool, thanks alot!
i think i am going to go walk around for a bit
jag: I guess Susanne will try to document the process so you can share photographs..
15:43 Do it
kyle: yea that is important
jag: Walk over to Långholmen
kyle: where is that?
i am at copacobana right now
15:44 jag: north.. down to långholmsgatan. then left, away from the gallery site. towards kungsholmen
15:45 walk up on the big bridge and then off it when you've passed the first stream
15:47 kyle: ok cool what is in Långholmen
jag: Nothing.
It's like the countryside
kyle: o nice
that sounds good
15:48 i will talk to you later
thanks again!
jag: thank you!
15:49 take care

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Kyle Knodell - What it is Not , at the CAVE Gallery, Detroit

2009-06-05T12:32:00.000-07:00

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Public Surface presents: Kyle Knodell – Sediment, Sentiment

2009-05-10T12:24:00.000-07:00

Opening reception 05.17.2009, 4 to 7 pm

On view 05.17 to 06.14, Saturdays and Sundays

from 12 to 6 pm, or by appointment

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