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OXFORD MODERN ART MODERN EXHIBITION NOTES KIKI KOGELNIK FLY ME FREEDOM TO THE JOSH KLINE JOSH MOON EXHIBITION NOTES EXHIBITION MODERN ART OXFORD CONTENTS Instagram: @mao_gallery Instagram: 1 What is the exhibition about? @mao_gallery Twitter: Facebook: Modern Art Oxford Art Modern Facebook: 2 Piper Gallery Map www.modernartoxford.org.uk 3 Middle Gallery Map Bundeskanzleramt Österreich. Bundeskanzleramt is supported by the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation, Austria and and Austria Foundation, Kogelnik Kiki the by supported is Moon the to Me Fly 4 Artist Interview Kogelnik: Kiki An extract from an interview between Josh Kline and Ryan Trecartin York. New Gallery, Subal Simone and Rinkhy Andrew London, Taneva from the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation, Elisabeth Koegler, Director, Austrian Cultural Forum Forum Cultural Austrian Director, Koegler, Elisabeth Foundation, Kogelnik Kiki the from Taneva 5 Extract from This is What The End of Racial Profiling Looks Like by Katya and Okresek Tatjana Schwarz, George Dr Schwarz-Kogelnik, Mono to thanks special With Tara Lai Quinian and Deborah Ramirez 6 - 7 Events helped to realise this exhibition. this realise to helped Modern Art Oxford is grateful to the many individuals, companies and organisations that have have that organisations and companies individuals, many the to grateful is Oxford Art Modern continue our work by making a donation before you leave. you before donation a making by work our continue If you have enjoyed your visit today and believe in free access to exhibitions, please help us to to us help please exhibitions, to access free in believe and today visit your enjoyed have you If This exhibition guide is available in a large print format. 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With thanks to the lenders: Events 7 - 6 Margaret Lee and Oliver Newton at 47 Canal, New York, The Rubell Family Collection, Florida and Josh Kline. by Marshall McLuhan, 1964 McLuhan, Marshall by Media Understanding from Extract www.modernartoxford.org.uk 5 by Kim Bhasin, 2015 2015 Bhasin, Kim by Facebook: Modern Art Oxford District Garment City’s York New of Days Glory The from Extract Twitter: @mao_gallery 4 Instagram: @mao_gallery Upper Gallery Map Gallery Upper 3 - 2 1 What is the exhibition about? exhibition the is What CONTENTS 1 WHAT IS THE EXHIBITION ABOUT? JOSH KLINE FREEDOM Please ask our Visitor Assistants lived has rendered her captivating work as vital today as when it was first made. first was it when as today vital as work captivating her rendered has lived 22 August – 18 October 2015 if you have any questions. reflecting on the potential impacts for humanity. Kogelnik’s critical stance on the times in which she she which in times the on stance critical Kogelnik’s humanity. for impacts potential the on reflecting Piper and Middle Galleries experiences today. It serves, too, as a timely reminder of the risks of embracing change without without change embracing of risks the of reminder timely a as too, serves, It today. experiences By exploring her concerns in a rapidly transforming society, Kogelnik’s work speaks to our own own our to speaks work Kogelnik’s society, transforming rapidly a in concerns her exploring By JOSH KLINE like those wheeled through the Garment District of New York where Kogelnik’s studio was based. based. was studio Kogelnik’s where York New of District Garment the through wheeled those like Josh Kline (b. 1979 Philadelphia) is part of an emerging generation of artists working with the which would then be cut out in vinyl. These silhouettes then presented on metal clothes racks, much much racks, clothes metal on presented then silhouettes These vinyl. in out cut be then would which technology of today. Kline’s work encompasses video, installation and sculpture and addresses the human stencils, drawing the outline of a supine model onto a large sheet of paper to create a form form a create to paper of sheet large a onto model supine a of outline the drawing stencils, human erosion of privacy and civil rights in the 21st century. high-tech materials came to the fore. She began to create a number of bright vinyl ‘hangings’ from from ‘hangings’ vinyl bright of number a create to began She fore. the to came materials high-tech A new decade gave rise to a different focus for Kogelnik’s practice, in which her interest in advanced advanced in interest her which in practice, Kogelnik’s for focus different a to rise gave decade new A Modern Art Oxford is pleased to present Freedom, Kline’s first solo exhibition in a public gallery. With this darkly compelling new exhibition, Kline interrogates the shifting boundaries between HANGINGS public and private interests. produced a series of lunar screenprints during a live broadcast of the landing of Apollo 11. Apollo of landing the of broadcast live a during screenprints lunar of series a produced (1969), a live performance in Vienna where the artist artist the where Vienna in performance live a (1969), Moonhappening marked the occasion with with occasion the marked FREEDOM minds. This reached a climax in 1969 when Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon. Kogelnik Kogelnik moon. the on steps first his took Armstrong Neil when 1969 in climax a reached This minds. At the heart of this exhibition is Kline’s installation in the Piper Gallery. This environment is modelled when the Space Race was at its height and fears of nuclear annihilation were vivid in peoples’ peoples’ in vivid were annihilation nuclear of fears and height its at was Race Space the when after Zuccotti Park in New York during the Occupy Wall Street protest camp in 2011. The majority of the works on display were produced during the Cold War, an era of great upheaval, upheaval, great of era an War, Cold the during produced were display on works the of majority The Four figures, dressed in riot police gear, stand poised around an urban park. Each bears a screen THE SPACE RACE SPACE THE presenting Privacy (2015); a video in which former police officers read aloud scripts drawn from the feeds of political activists speaking on social media. in a slightly more detached, melancholic manner. manner. melancholic detached, more slightly a in The logo of the American National Security Agency – an eagle clutching a key in its claws – is new direction. Kogelnik’s works from this era continue to represent volatile celestial bodies, though though bodies, celestial volatile represent to continue era this from works Kogelnik’s direction. new re-imagined through Patriot Acts (2015). This new animation looks at the rebranding of America by (1965) reveal a a reveal (1965) (Robot) Untitled like works later, year a over just Painted (1964). Brutal in Outer Space Outer in Brutal appropriating multiple graphic identities, from Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign to the opening (1964) and and (1964) Moon the to Me Fly intergalactic travel is evident in the exuberant lunar landscapes of of landscapes lunar exuberant the in evident is travel intergalactic titles from the film The Hunger Games. on the artist’s treatment of technology and its effect on the body. Kogelnik’s fascination with with fascination Kogelnik’s body. the on effect its and technology of treatment artist’s the on presents work by Kogelnik from the 1950s to the 1980s, focusing in particular particular in focusing 1980s, the to 1950s the from Kogelnik by work presents Fly Me to the Moon the to Me Fly Large mobile phone masts disguised as ‘trees’ with credit card ‘leaves’, fill the gallery. They complete the ominous image of a world driven by profit and technology in which debt is tracked and FLY ME TO THE MOON THE TO ME FLY the population is placed under surveillance. prints, ceramics and performance. and ceramics prints, exploration. She also began to diversify her practice around this time, experimenting with sculpture, sculpture, with experimenting time, this around practice her diversify to began also She exploration. HOPE AND CHANGE / CRYING GAMES and muted shades for vivid colour, her paintings began to depict a brave new world of space space of world new brave a depict to began paintings her colour, vivid for shades muted and This dark world is relieved by the rousing speech delivered by US President Barack Obama on a war Europe – Kogelnik’s work underwent a dramatic shift. Eschewing abstraction for figuration, figuration, for abstraction Eschewing shift. dramatic a underwent work Kogelnik’s – Europe war monitor in the installation. This speech is a re-imagining of the 2009 inaugural address. Hope and Captivated by the vitality of New York City – a far cry from the depressed economic climate of post post of climate economic depressed the from cry far a – City York New of vitality the by Captivated Change is written by the artist and one of Obama’s former speechwriters. “Obama” is rendered by artists Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg.