PHOTOS AT AN EXHIBITION
the qi peng dynasty (we are duchampions) installation @ envoy enterprises June 23, 2009
de qi peng, Darren Keith Breen, Vincent Como, James Kalm, Tom Sanford, Kadar Brock, William Powhida
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peng combines selected “interview portraits,” which he has published through www.examiner.com as an online art project, between art professionals which he has met in real life or Facebook or Twitter or other social networking websites into a larger installation project. By delivering a cross section of the international art world, focusing on New York City and Los Angeles mostly with a small dose of his current hometown of Salt Lake City, the artist attempts to democratize how the public perceives any particular individual within this complex web of artists, art dealers, museum curators, art workers, and slaves who comprise this whole system of people who put together contemporary art for the audience. By displaying offset prints of these portraits like a digital version of August Sander photographs, peng attempts to humanize the art world as an antithesis to the glossy art market and blue chip players portrayed by the magazines.
This installation piece will present secondary documents that will reflect on how the artist’s first solo show in New York City became extant at envoy enterprises. Mixing together proposals, acceptance and rejection letters, critiques, as well some surprising documents that feature a Chelsea gallery, and a painting that is based on a prominent Brooklyn artist with overtones of the idea of “WWPD,” this work becomes a brave exploration of the politics of how exhibitions are created and galleries are curated. Also this is a fairly dispassionate view of the artist’s subjective journey from a virtually unknown artist as a displaced New Yorker located in Utah into a slowly emerging artist as a small player within the international art world. He also highlights the challenges of an atypical Utah conceptual artist attaining both “critical affirmation” and “artistic defiance” with and against the somewhat insular New York contemporary art world reframed as the Garden of Eden.
There will be a surprise ending to the whole installation and a possible inclusion of the following events: an artist book signing at a table, an unexpected appearance of the Zero Dollar project by Laura Gilbert, a performance duel between Rick Herron and the artist himself, and guest appearances by famed bootlegger Eric Doeringer and collaborating artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton. The audience may be able to say hello to the following celebrities: James Kalm, Jerry Saltz, or James Wagner. 10% of the complete installation’s sale will be donated to a non-profit organization helping out the victims of the Madoff investment scandal.
“the qi peng dynasty (we are duchampions)” is the Salt Lake City artist’s first attempt at a solo show anywhere in his homebase of New York City. He needs all the luck that he can get from a broken leg.
Características y detalles
- Categoría principal: Libros de arte y fotografía
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Características: Cuadrado grande, 30×30 cm
N.º de páginas: 160 - Fecha de publicación: jul. 19, 2009
- Palabras clave qi peng, art world, institutional critique, William Powhida, James Kalm, New York City, Gerhard Richter, Mel Bochner, Los Angeles, artist, paintings, wealth, luxury, flattery, irony, MoMA, Whitney, museum
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qi peng was born in Queens, New York in 1976 and received his masters degree at Yale University. He is a conceptual artist who executes “interviews” as a form of collaborative portraits with various art professionals and also uses primary/secondary documents to examine the contemporary art market. Occasionally he does paintings, photographs, and works on paper. The artist’s studio is located near downtown Salt Lake City and he works sometimes in New York City for street art or fine art special projects. He has been exhibited in various places including envoy enterprises, the Projects Gallery, The Lab at Belmar, modern8 Gallery, James Cohan Gallery/NURTUREart, Metro Pictures/Visual AIDS, Art Raw Gallery, and Anna Kustera. He is represented by Central Booking in Brooklyn (DUMBO), New York and The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida.