Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman, Tang Dynasty Poems Etched Into Fine China, 2011. Courtesy of the artists.
OCA ANNOUNCES
Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman solo exhibition:
'Gladly Will I Sell
For Profit,
Dear Merchants of the Town,
My Hat
Laden With Snow'
Period: 8 September-6 November 2011
Opening Reception: 8 September, 18:00-21:00
Opening night performance by ikebana master Lily Pu
Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), Brooklyn, NY, USA
Alejandra Salinas and Aeron
Bergman open their project entitled 'Gladly Will I Sell
For Profit, Dear Merchants of the Town, My Hat Laden With Snow,' at
the Dumbo Arts Center in Brooklyn on Thursday 8 September. Curated
by DAC's director Karl Erickson, the project will show a new body
of work that according to the curator 'draws attention to its own
durability and physicality: web content is burned onto acid-free
paper with a laser engraver for maximum longevity, information from
paper documents is engraved as a series of granite monuments. Tang
dynasty poetry is etched into chinaware. Sculptures in marble,
granite and (faux) gold suggest their value as the materials of the
fine arts, while ceramic, brick and tile pieces invoke the
domestic’.
The layout of the exhibition has been completed in consultation
with the New York-based feng-shui master Pun Yin.
For press inquiries and more information on this announcement,
please contact Karl
Erickson, director, DAC.
About the artists
Aeron Bergman (b.1971 in Detroit, MI, USA, lives
and works in Oslo, Norway) and Alejandra Salinas
(b.1977 in La Rioja, Spain, lives and works in Oslo) have had solo
exhibitions in venues such as Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona,
Spain; Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal; Röda Sten Art Center,
Gothenburg, Sweden; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
and IMO, Copenhagen, Denmark. They have participated in group shows
at ICC, Tokyo, Japan; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan;
CCCB, Barcelona; Kunstnernes Hus and Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo.
In 2011 they created INCA: Institute for Neo Connotative Action, an
artist, poet and scholar in residency program, exhibition and
lecture space in Detroit. The duo also curate the nobelprize.no
yearly online exhibition. They have taught and lectured in art
schools such as Umeå Art Academy, Umeå, Sweeden; Malmö Academy of
Art, Malmö; Sweden; Trondheim Art Academy, Trondheim, Norway and
the International Academy of Art, Ramallah, Palestine. Bergman is
currently professor and chair of intermedia at the Oslo National
Academy of Fine Art.
OCA Support
The
Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman solo exhibition
at Dumbo Arts Center has been supported by OCA’s International
Support Programme.