Lars Laumann, still from
Shut Up Child, This Ain't Bingo,2009
Courtesy of the artist and Maureen Paley, London
Opening: Tuesday, 1 December / 19:00 – 21:00
From 1 December 2009 to 14 February 2010
770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, FL
www.mocanomi.org
Lars Laumann has been invited by MOCA Associate Curator Ruba Katrib, to participate in 'The Reach of Realism', a group exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami held in tandem with Art Basel Miami Beach. The exhibition explores the artistic traditions of realism in an age of digital manipulation and staged reality. Within the show, Laumann will exhibit his new film Shut Up Child, This Ain't Bingo (2009), which investigates the boundaries of art and life by examining the story of a fellow artist who falls in love with her subject, an inmate on death row in Texas. Other artists within 'The Reach of Realism' include Uta Barth, Olaf Breuning, Tom Burr, Talia Chetrit, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Phil Collins, Thomas Demand, Alex Hubbard, Matt Keegan, Ragnar Kjartansson, Elad Lassry, Adam McEwen, Wilhelm Sasnal, Xaviera Simmons, Martin Soto Climent, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sara VanDerBeek, Emily Wardill, Gillian Wearing, Judi Werthein and Artur Zmijewski.
Lars Laumann (born in Brønnøysund, Norway in 1975, lives and works in New York, NY, Berlin, Germany, and Oslo, Norway) completed his studies at the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, in 2001 and has since exhibited widely in Europe and the United States. Recent exhibitions of his work include 'Report on Probability', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2009); '1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft?', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2009); the 5th Berlin Biennial, Berlin; 'The Dulcet of Clime of the Bedchamber', Goff & Rosenthal, Berlin; 'Update', White Columns, New York, NY; 'The Hidden', Maureen Paley, London, UK; 'Medium Cool', Art in General, New York, NY; 'Soft Spot', 0047, Oslo, Norway; and 'Monumento Mori', Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, all of them 2008.
The participation of Lars Laumann within 'The Reach of Realism' is supported with a grant from OCA's International Support Programme.