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THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN PRESENTS A LARGE-SCALE SOLO EXHIBITION OF ARTIST DO HO SUH FOR FALL 2014 

Do Ho Suh - September 20, 2014 - January 11, 2015

The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center, 700 Congress Ave., Austin, TX

The Contemporary Austin Laguna Gloria, 3809 West 35th Street, Austin, TX

JULY 25, 2014, AUSTIN, TEXAS - Renowned Korean-born sculptor and installation artist Do Ho Suh will present his first major solo exhibition in the US in more than a decade at The Contemporary Austin from September 20, 2014, through January 11, 2015. An influential artist operating within a distinctly twenty-first-century global mode, Suh crafts evocative and visually stunning works that reflect ideas of home, identity, and personal space. The exhibition at The Contemporary Austin encompasses the museum's two distinct sites and includes both existing works and newly fabricated pieces from several of Do Ho Suh's discrete but related bodies of work. Large-scale sculptures, installations, and works on paper will be on view at The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center at 700 Congress Avenue and at the museum's Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, 3809 West 35th Street in Austin, Texas. More information can be found at thecontemporaryaustin.org.

Do Ho Suh's work draws on the artist's personal experiences growing up in Seoul, South Korea, studying art in the US, and moving homes several times over the course of his life. He now lives a global and "nomadic" existence, with homes in New York, London, and Seoul, and an exhibition schedule that reflects this, taking him all over the world. Inspired by his personal history and biography, the artist's sculptures and installations reveal a range of powerful themes, including notions of public versus private space, global identity, memory, and displacement. At the same time, Suh's works strike viewers with their delicate monumentality, subtle beauty, and intricate construction techniques. This distinctive combination of technical skill, striking visual appeal, and universal resonance has led to both critical and public success for the artist.

Wim Wenders, Ferris Wheel, Armenia (detail), 2008, C-Print (148 x 345 cm), © Wim Wenders

WIM WENDERS

PLACES, STRANGE AND QUIET

ENORMOUS PANORAMAS OF AN ABANDONED FAIRGROUND IN ARMENIA, RADIOACTIVE LANDSCAPES AT FUKUSHIMA IN JAPAN AND A DINOSAUR-FILLED AMUSEMENT PARK IN THE USA. THIS AUTUMN’S EXHIBITION AT KUNSTFORENINGEN GL STRAND SHOWS A CAREFULLY COMPOSED SELECTION OF THE FAMOUS FILM DIRECTOR WIM WENDERS’ PHOTOGRAPHS.

WENDERS SHOWS US THE WORLD OF WHICH WE ARE ALL A PART BUT WHICH WE RARELY NOTICE.

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S Y N C R E T I S M  &  S Y N E S T H E S I A 

Exhibition dates: 12 July to 6 August, 2014

SERGI AGUILAR / EDUARD ARBÓS / JOSÉ PEDRO CROFT

Imagine, if you will, the symbiosis that occurs when three different artists present their work in a way that allows us into the realm of space and volume through the prism of perception and memory. Syncretism, the joining of different points of view into an amalgam of analogous beliefs or traditions and Synesthesia, the neurological phenomenon which permits one to experience sensations through parallel or secondary cognitive pathways are the portals through which we can undertand the dialogue between three artists whose careers have taken them along singular and independent paths whilst synthesizing, through the mediums of painting and sculpture, their investigations into time, space and the balance/imbalance of visionary architecture.

Considered one of the principal Spanish sculptors of his generation, Sergi Aguilar (Barcelona 1946) traces his own experiences through journeys, resulting in works of astonishing beauty that combine Minimalism with a Geometric Rationalism characterized by an exquisite attention to detail. For this exhibition Aguilar presents various sculptures and installations that underscore his continuing concerns with space and volume.

Sergi Aguilar Has Exhibited widely in museums and galleries both in Spain and internationally. His public installations can be seen principally in Catalunya and in the collections of museums such as the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid; MACBA, Barcelona; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, among others.

Dividing his time between Barcelona and LIsbon, Eduard Arbós (Barcelona, 1959) has dedicated himself to the study of space, annotating architectural elements which he presents, through paintings and sculptures, as "a reflexion about space and its representation, proposing through a process of decomposition and synthesis, a dialogue between concept and experience that questions, at the same time, the very mechanisms of perception."

For this exhibition Arbós distills the essence of virtual architectural space in a series of paintings on paper and canvas presented in a formal sequence.

Since 1993 Arbós has exhibited widely in galleries in Spain and Portugal and his work can be found in the permanent collections of La Caixa, Caja Madrid, Chirivella Soriano, CAB Burgos and the Otten Kunst Raum in Austria, among others.

One of the foremost representatives of Portuguese contemporary art, José Pedro Croft (Oporto, 1957) works principally in sculpture and drawing, creating ambiguous situations that border on the edge of stability and instability and where the notions of interior and exterior, weigh and fragility are questioned. Croft gives great significance to his drawings, a process made manifest in the selection of etchings that comprise the exhibition, in which he alternates rythms, activates zones, plays with tensions between the line and the zone, and uses planes or empty space to render dynamic tension to the composition while disfiguring perception.

With work in numerous museums, including the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, the Fundación de Serralves, La Caixa, the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the MEIAC and the European Central Bank, Frankfurt among others, Croft has exhibited, since 1986, in galleries principal galleries and museums throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas.