2013/14 - LISTE 18 | The young art fair in Basel

Silberkuppe0/3/2SilberkuppeDominic EichlerMichel ZieglerIn der PförtnerlogeSkalitzer Strasse 68DE-10997 BerlinT +49 30 3744 3135mail@silberkuppe.orgwww.silberkuppe.orgSolo Show at LISTE:Leidy Churchman, 1979, USOther Artists of the Gallery:Gerry Bibby, AUTove El, SEMargaret Harrison, UKTobias Kaspar, CHJanette Laverrière, CHAdam Linder, AUFred Lonidier, USShahryar Nashat, CHAnna Ostoya, PLLeidy ChurchmanBang! Flat Green,2011Oil on canvas180 × 160 cm158 / 159Silberkuppe was founded in May 2008 byDominic Eichler and Michel Ziegler.Since then they have initiated numerousprojects, events and exhibitions involvingover 60 international visual artists aswell as architects, designers, curators,musicians, dancers and writers.Amongst these were the first solo showsin Germany of New York-based painterR. H. Quaytman, San Diego-based politicalconceptualist Fred Lonidier anddistinguished feminist Margaret Harrison,as well as the first inclusion in Europeaninstitutions of major works by London-basedsculptor Phyllida Barlow.In 2009 and 2010 the latter took part in aseries of four institutional group exhibitionwhich Silberkuppe was invited to curateby the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden,Hayward Gallery Project Space London,Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst Basel, andthe Bergen Kunsthall, Norway.Today Silberkuppe represents 10international artists from all generations.With their shared interest in the legacy offeminism and queer theory, social-politicalconceptualism, context art, institutionalcritique, appropriation and performanceart, Silberkuppe and their artists are amongstthe most significant new voices incontemporary art in Berlin.At LISTE Silberkuppe is presenting aselection of work by New York- based painterLeidy Churchman. To date his paintingshave manifested in discreet groups of workand installations, sometimes partnered byperformative videos. In both his videos andpainting, the artist’s work draws equallyon abstraction as well as a folk or naive stylewith respect to the rendering of linesand motifs, sometimes shifting betweenmodes in the same composition. Lazy River(2012), for instance, consists of thirteensmall canvases side-by-side. One of themdepicts a beady-eyed, squawking seagullbeckoning to the viewer in the same paletteas the other twelve canvases that haveno representational content but rather traceabstract lines and fields, and shadow-likeor liminal forms.