Lars Laumann, still from Helen Keller (and the great purging bonfire of books and unpublished manuscripts illuminating the dark), 2010 Courtesy of Maureen Paley, London
LARS LAUMANN TO EXHIBIT IN
'TOUCHED, INTERNATIONAL 10', AS PART OF THE 2010 LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL
Liverpool, UK
Press preview: 16–17 September 2010
Public opening dates: 18 September–28 November 2010
www.biennial.com
AND
'FREE' AT THE NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
New York, NY, USA
Press preview: 20 October / 9:30–11:00
23 October 2010–23 January 2011
www.newmuseum.org
'Touched, International 10' at the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Lars Laumann has been invited to participate in 'Touched, International 10', as part of the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, curated by Director Lewis Biggs. 'Touched' will present artworks that, according to its curator, will 'affect the viewer through addressing a total context (mind, body and place: relatedness in space and time); artworks whose investment and inscription in the particular and the personal affects the general and the social.'
For 'Touched', Open Eye Gallery and the New Museum in New York have co-commissioned Lars Laumann to create a new work titled Helen Keller (and the great purging bonfire of books and unpublished manuscripts illuminating the dark) – a video essay in two parts using a range of techniques and approaches to discuss filmic and literary adaptation, multiple narratives, censorship and the burning of books. Alongside Helen Keller, Laumann will also be exhibiting two existing video works Duett, from 2010 and Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, from 2006.
About the Liverpool Biennial
The Liverpool Biennial is one of the UK's largest contemporary visual arts events, with six concurrent programmes, one of which is the International Exhibition. The sixth edition of the Liverpool Biennial's International Exhibition, 'Touched', consists of approximately 40 new projects by leading and emerging international artists. 'Touched' principally features new commissions as well as several key works previously unseen in the UK to be presented across multiple venues: Tate Liverpool, the Bluecoat, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), A Foundation and Open Eye Gallery, with half the exhibition sited in public spaces across the city. Other participating artists include Allan Kapow, Alfredo Jaar, Otto Muehl,NS Harsha and Raymond Pettibon.
To acquire a press accreditation, please visit www.biennial.com. For further press information please contact Catharine Braithwaite at cat@we-r-lethal.com.
'Free', at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
From 20 October 2010, Lars Laumann will be exhibiting Helen Keller in the exhibition 'Free', curated for the New Museum in New York by Executive Director of Rhizome and New Museum Adjunct Curator Lauren Cornell. 'Free' will include work by 23 artists working across various media, including video, installation, sculpture, photography, the internet and sound, reflecting on the artistic strategies that have emerged in a radically democratised landscape, redefined by the impact of the web. Other artists exhibiting in 'Free' include Lizzie Fitch, David Horvitz, Seth Price and Ryan Trecartin & David Karp.
Press preview: Wednesday 20 October / 9:30–11:00. Members of the press should contact the New Museum for accreditation, press@newmuseum.org.
About the Artist
Lars Laumann (born in Brønnøysund, Norway in 1975, lives and works in New York, NY and Berlin, Germany) completed his studies at the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, in 2001 and has since exhibited widely in Europe and the United States. In 2009 Laumann received the Statoil Art Award. Recent exhibitions of his work include MOMENTUM 2009 – 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Galleri F15, Moss (2009); 'Report on Probability', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2009); '1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft?', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2009); 'As Long As It Lasts', Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2009); the 5th Berlin Biennial, 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.
Support
Lars Laumann's participation within the 6th Liverpool Biennial, 'Touched, International 10' and within 'Free' has been supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway's International Support Programme.