Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda On View - Redcat

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
REDCAT PRESENTS THE FIRST MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITION
IN THE UNITED STATES BY BERLIN-BASED ARTISTS
JAY CHUNG & Q TAKEKI MAEDA, A PROJECT THAT
MARKS THEIR 10-YEAR COLLABORATION
Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, "10 Years of Jay & Q," 2012, production still.
Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda
On View:
July 8–September 2, 2012
Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 7 | 6–9PM
It's Saturday's "S-Class" show jumping championship in Ladeburg, once again
presented by the artist-duo Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda––one an American and
the other Japanese. They have worked together in collaboration for 10 years...
since exactly 2002. They've had many international exhibitions in galleries and
museums. In Berlin, they are currently represented by the gallery Isabella
Bortolozzi. And on the occasion of their 10 years of working together, they are
endowing the prize... of the Saturday show jumping championship of 2012.

And if you have a look around the edge of the parcours... to symbolize their 10
years of working together... swaying in the wind of Ladeburg, 4 flags—10 flags,
sorry, 10 flags—in 10 different colors. And maybe have a look, it's very funny:
horses are shown with very, very different... hats.
On the one hand, this is meant to represent the variety of their ideas, on the other,
the variety of ways that exist to work together with the horse.
–– 12. Reit- und Springturnier, Ladeburg, 2012
Los Angeles, CA — REDCAT presents the first major solo exhibition in the United States by
Berlin-based artists Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda. Furthering the pairs' ongoing inquiry
into the systems that underlie processes and contexts of social exchange, the exhibition will
be on view in the Gallery at REDCAT Sunday, July 8, 2012 through Sunday, September 2,
2012.
In the months preceding the exhibition at REDCAT, Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda
endowed the prize for the "S-Class" show jumping championship in Ladeburg, Germany.
Having worked together since 2002, Chung and Maeda's presentation of the award marked
the tenth anniversary of the artists' collaboration, which began with Modus Tollens (2002), a
work that framed their friendship as the basis of their artistic practice. The commemoration
of the artists' ten-year history extends the durational logic of this earlier project and points to
their own artistic history as a potential working material. In this instance, the artists use the
time that has elapsed over the course of their ongoing relationship as the starting point for a
new artwork.
For the exhibition at REDCAT, Chung and Maeda present the ten flags that discretely framed
the event in Ladeburg. Each flag depicts a different drawing of two horses wearing the same
hat, accompanied by the words "10 Years of Jay & Q" in an ornate script. The flags take on
an unassuming style and manner to render the commemoration of the artists' career into an
understatement, a gesture further reflected by the modest scale of the event in Ladeburg.
In addition, a new video produced for the exhibition at REDCAT translates a selection of
recent and historical artists' statements into a choreographed monologue performed by an
actor. Culled together to form a single voice, the statements express an ongoing generational
dissatisfaction and disillusionment with younger artists. Brought together in this context, the
two projects by Chung and Maeda come to represent the processes by which an artist and
artwork are deemed mature, and how a general fear of cultural decline and loss of idealism is
inherited from one generation to the next.
Jay Chung (b. 1976, Madison, WI) and Q Takeki Maeda (b. 1977, Nagoya, Japan) currently
live and work in Berlin, where they have been based since studying together at the
StŠdelschule in Frankfurt. Their work has been included in numerous international
exhibitions in such venues as Kunstverein Frankfurt; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary
Arts, San Francisco; Konsthall Malmš, Sweden; and Migros Museum fŸr
Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at Cabinet, London
(2011); Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin (2010, 2006); House of Gaga, Mexico City
(2009); Cubitt Gallery, London (2008); KŸnstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany (2007); and
Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy (2006).

The exhibition is funded in part with generous support from Stacy and John Rubeli; Isabella
Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin; Cabinet, London; House of Gaga, Mexico City; The Japan
Foundation, Los Angeles; and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.
The artists are in Los Angeles through Sunday, July 8 and available for interview. To request
interviews, additional information, media or images, please contact Diana Wyenn at 213 237-
2873 or dwyenn@calarts.edu.
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EXHIBITION AND VENUE INFORMATION
Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda
Exhibition Dates:
July 8 – September 2, 2012
Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 7 | 6–9PM
Gallery Hours:
Tuesdays through Sundays from noon until 6 pm
Closed Mondays and major holidays.
Admission:
Free
REDCAT is located at the corner of W. 2nd and Hope Streets, inside the Walt Disney
Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles (631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA
90012).
Additional information can be found online at www.redcat.org, or by phone 213-237-2800.
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