Projects 94: Henrik Olesen
09 February - 23 May 2011
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Imitation/Enigma (2). 2008
Box, adhesive tape, rope, padding material, and blanket
23 5/8 x 39 3/8 x 11 13/16" (60 x 100 x 30 cm)
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne and Berlin |
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PROJECTS 94: HENRIK OLESEN
February 9 – May 23, 2011
Projects Gallery, second floor
In his conceptually rigorous and often witty work, Berlin-based artist
Henrik Olesen (b. 1967, Esbjerg, Denmark) investigates structures of
power and systems of knowledge to reveal inherent logics and rules of
social and political normalization. Olesen’s projects, based on in-depth
research, have addressed a range of subjects including legal codes, the
natural sciences, distribution of capital, and art history, and have
taken the form of posters, fliers, text, collages, found-object
sculptures, and spatial interventions. In past works, Olesen has
compiled examples of "sodomy law” from around the world as testimony to
the persistent criminalization of homosexuality; assembled a vast atlas
of conspicuous and yet rarely acknowledged expressions of same-sex
desire or affection in Western art history; and, most recently, created a
historical and imagined portrait—in photo-text collages and sculptural
objects—of British mathematician Alan Turing, who was persecuted for his
sexual orientation despite his professional achievements and patriotic
contributions. For Projects 94, Olesen presents a new site-specific
work.
Organized by Doryun Chong, Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture.
The Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series is made possible in part by The
Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art and the JA Endowment
Committee.
www.moma.org
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