Untitled (2010) was a conceptual group exhibition curated by the London-based curatorial trio Am Nuden Da at the Four Boxes Gallery at Krabbesholm Højskole in Denmark.
Challenging standard gallery practices, Untitled required that all 13 participating artists display artworks that were explicitly named "Untitled". This was paired alongside a concurrent exhibition by the trio called Words, creating a stark conceptual contrast: while Words explored language over physical form, Untitled rejected linguistic categorization to focus entirely on visual materiality.
Am Nuden Da is a London-based contemporary art collective and curatorial trio founded in 2008 by three individual artists:
- Adam Gibbons
- Lewis Ronald
- Jesper List Thomsen
Operating with a fluid identity, they purposefully blur the traditional boundaries between being a gallery space, an artist collective, and an independent curatorial entity.
Session_12_Words + Untitled
Private View Friday 12th November 2010_3-6
Show open 13th to 21th November 2010
at Four Boxes Gallery
Krabbesholm Alle 15
7800 Skive, Denmark
http://krabbesholm.dk/english.html
Press release
Words was first realised in 2009 and shown in Am Nuden Da's former London space in conjunction with the Los Angeles based journal Material. It was conceived as an exhibition focused on artists' use of the written word. To coincide with the re-installation of Words at Four Boxes Gallery, Am Nuden Da has curated the exhibition Untitled . The 13 artists participating in Untitled have responded to a proposition that the works shown here should be chosen on the basis of their status as 'Untitled'. Where Words foregrounds language at the expense of materiality, Untitled performs antithetically by engaging with the physical and visual. For the Words exhibition 85 artists have been invited to email a 'text piece' to Am Nuden Da who, using a standardised format, have copied and pasted each submission onto a single sheet of A4. All pieces are set in Arial, the default typeface, at point 10 size. This dogmatic method represents an attempt to foreground language ahead of personal style, design, layout and graphic appearance. The installation of the untitled works offers a contrasting visual and material situation, one where categorising and identifying the artwork takes a paradoxical turn by relying on a linguistic association, that of being unnamed. Throughout the last century the 'Untitled' proposition has become not simply a default mechanism for not assigning a name to a work of art but a recognised methodology, one which this show addresses. Marcel Duchamp christened the modern title as an "invisible color," offering it a name that was simultaneously precise, paradoxical, ironic and impossible. 1 you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. 2 "When?" 3 1 "Invisible Colors: A Visual History of Titles", John C. Welchman (Yale University Press, 1997) p. 8 2 "The Unnamable", Samuel Beckett 3 Untitled , 2010, Cally Spooner  UNTITLED Jesse Ash Andrea Büttner Stefan Burger Hsiao Chen David Raymond Conroy Aleksandra Domanovic Lina Viste Grønli Geoge Henry Longly Helen Marten Philomene Pirecki Giles Round Ama Saru WORDS Øystein Aasan Marya Alford Kathryn Andrews Adriana Salazar Arroyo Jesse Ash Charles Avery Fiona Banner Becky Beasley Stephanie Bolt Olivia Booth Stefan Brüggemann Matthew Buckingham Andrea Büttner Stefan Burger Josh Callaghan Carrit & Palmer Alejandro Cesarco Jake Chapman Terry Chatkupt Hsiao Chen Paolo Chiasera Marcus Civin David Raymond Conroy Simon Cunningham Robin Dicker Aleksandra Domanovic Samuel Fouracre Maria Fusco Aurélien Gamboni Ryan Gander Joy Gerrard Douglas Gordon Alyssa Gorelick Lina Viste Grønli Emilie Halpern Will Holder Yngve Holen David Horvitz Sven Johne Farrah Karapetian Peter Kirby Susan Kordalewski Jenny Moore Koslowsky Oliver Laric Ian Law Wiebke Leister Geoge Henry Longly Shana Lutker Ignacio Mardones Helen Marten Elizabeth McAlpine Jessica Minckley Daniel Mueller-Friedrichsen Melanie Nakaue Arthur Ou Katrina Palmer Douglas Park Chris Peters Regine Petersen Kate Pickering Philomene Pirecki Wolfgang Plo?ger David Price Dan Rees Olivier Richon Declan Rooney Martha Rosler Giles Round Ama Saru Scanlon & Grivell Emma Shercliff Cally Spooner Jack Strange Roman Vasseur Laurence Weiner Richard Wentworth Dee Williams Duncan Wooldridge Charlie Woolley Cerith Wyn Evans Eric Yahnker Viola Yesiltac |
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