Horst Ademeit is featured at the new show at BlainISouthern:
REVOLT OF THE SAGE
24 November 2016 – 21 January 2016
at BlainISouthern in London
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Horst Ademeit, untitled, inscribed polaroid, 11x9 cm. Courtesy Delmes & Zander. |
Private View: 23 November, 6–8pm
featuring: Horst Ademeit, Lynn Chadwick, Hanne Darboven, Haris
Epaminonda, Geoffrey Farmer, Jannis Kounellis, Mark Lewis, Goshka
Macuga, Christian Marclay, Simon Moretti, David Noonan, Sigmar Polke,
Erin Shirreff, Michael Simpson, John Stezaker and Paloma Varga Weisz.
"Revolt of the Sage is an exhibition featuring sixteen artists that takes its title from a work by Giorgio de Chirico painted in 1916. The Revolt of the Sage is
an example of what the artist would call a ‘metaphysical interior’, and
yet its crowded pictorial space overflows with ephemeral things:
frames, measuring devices and biscuits. Objects pile up and overlap,
while a strange perspective recedes into an irresolvable background.
What did the artist mean by a ‘metaphysical interior’? In a letter to
Apollinaire, written around the time he painted The Revolt of the Sage,
de Chirico describes two realms: our finite condition, and its loss and
longing, and a metaphysical realm where time does not exist.
It has been almost two years now since I’ve seen you. The Ephesian
teaches us that time does not exist and that on the great curve of
eternity the past is the same as the future. This might be what the
Romans meant with their image of Janus, the god with two faces; and
every night in dream, in the deepest hours of rest, the past and future
appear to us as equal, memory blends with prophecy in a mysterious
union.
Giorgio de Chirico to Apollinaire, July 1916
Picking up on de Chirico’s vision of a ‘metaphysical interior’, Revolt of the Sage
gathers a range of artists who use collage, juxtaposition, fragments,
framing devices and layered imagery to explore ruptures in time and the
alluring mysteries of the everyday. The exhibition features new and
existing work by contemporary artists alongside late post-War artists
such as Lynn Chadwick, Hanne Darboven and Sigmar Polke.
Curated by artist-curator Simon Moretti and Craig Burnett,
Blain|Southern’s Director of Exhibitions, the exhibition emerged from
their shared interest in de Chirico and the thought that The Revolt of the Sage
would resonate with artists whose work inhabits that chasm between the
here and now and a dream of ‘the great curve of eternity’ that we might
perceive in a small, measurable work of art.
On the occasion of the exhibition, Blain|Southern will publish a book
that features a newly commissioned interview between art historian Ara
H. Merjian and philosopher Jesse Prinz, alongside existing texts by
Giorgio de Chirico, John Ashbery, Lydia Davis, Apollinaire and others.
Participating artists: Horst Ademeit, Lynn Chadwick, Hanne Darboven,
Haris Epaminonda, Geoffrey Farmer, Jannis Kounellis, Mark Lewis, Goshka
Macuga, Christian Marclay, Simon Moretti, David Noonan, Sigmar Polke,
Erin Shirreff, Michael Simpson, John Stezaker and Paloma Varga Weisz."
http://www.blainsouthern.com/exhibitions/2016/revolt-of-the-sage