Rineke Dijkstra - I See a Woman Crying (Weeping Woman), Ruth Drawing Picasso - The Krazyhouse, Liverpool UK (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Philip, Dee) - Exhibition Announcement

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Exhibition announcement for Rineke Dijkstra featuring three new video installations and related portraits, presented across the North and South Galleries. The show runs June 29 to August 21, 2010, opening with an evening reception on June 29. I See a Woman Crying (Weeping Woman) presents teenagers responding to Picasso’s Weeping Woman via multi-camera projection, while Ruth Drawing Picasso depicts a schoolgirl’s concentrated drawing of the painting. The Krazyhouse, Liverpool UK captures teens dancing to favorite tracks in a purpose-built studio on a nightclub dance floor, extending Dijkstra’s engagement with Liverpool and its audiences.

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Exhibition Overview

Works on View in the North Gallery

Works on View in the South Gallery

Collaboration with Tate Liverpool

RINEKE DIJKSTRA: I See a Woman Crying (Weeping Woman), 2009-2010 Ruth Drawing Picasso, 2009-2010 The Krazyhouse, Liverpool UK (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Philip, Dee), 2009-2010 June 29-August 21, 2010 Opening reception: Tuesday, June 29th, 6-8 pm Marian Goodman Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new work by Rineke Dijkstra which will open on Tuesday, June 29th and will run through August 21st. On view will be three new video installations as well as related portraits. In the North Gallery the three-channel projection I SeeA Woman Crying (Weeping Woman), 2009-2010 and single channel Ruth Drawing Picasso, 2009-2010 will be presented. In the South Gallery, The Krazyhouse, Liverpool UK (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Philip, Dee), 2009-2010 will be on view. This new work continues the artist’s relationship with the city of Liverpool, where her celebrated early video work The Buzz Club, Liverpool, UK /Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL (1996/97) was first created and where her work was recently on view in The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space at Tate Liverpool. Ruth Drawing Picasso is a single projection of a schoolgirl’s quiet observation of Picasso’s painting “Weeping Woman”(1937) . Ruth sits on the floor and draws with utmost concentration the work of art in front of her. I See a Woman Crying (The Weeping Woman) consists of three projections side by side in which a panorama of school children respond to a Picasso painting. “They are looking directly at us; we are where the artis, which is of course the case given that we are standing in a gallery. It is a conceptual tautology all the more elegant for not advertising itself…an image which can double as a classicalportrait as well as a social document”(Mark Prince, in frieze, 03/17/10) . About this work, Rudi Fuchs writes: “’Weeping Woman’ itself (the famous painting by Picasso from 1937) does not appear in Rineke Dijkstra's new film work. What we do see are nine young teenagers looking at each other and wondering what they see. The film was shot with three cameras, placed on tripods along side each other, facing and equidistant to the casually formed row ofyoungsters. They did not see the painting itself, but a large reproduction of it that was attached to the tripod of the middle camera. This is why—because they were focusing on a pointjust below the camera's 'line ofsight'—none of the youngsters ever (or, if so, just by chance) looks straight into the lens. As such they become a group unto themselves, and it almost seems as though no camera is present. For once their observations and comments begin, they gradually no longer look only at the painting; they then start responding to each other's remarks. This work is therefore not a documentary group portrait but a reminder ofthe classic 'conversation piece' in English painting. A key part ofthe subdued atmosphere and tone in the film relates to the figures being concerned with something among themselves which does not involve complying with a story or scenario. Though the creative process is formal, the youngsters are not directed. Just as in Rineke Dijkstra's photographic works actually, the protagonists are completely free, within the design and organization of the mise en scène—that is to say the very shaping of the work—to find a pose with which they feel at ease. Such quiet informality also comes across to us in this film, of course because that is ultimately guided and formed by the controlled cadence of the film images that we see being projected.… Just as in Picasso’s painting, where multiple ways of seeing converge, things happen simultaneously here…. In the kinetic rhythm of those film images, in the shifting ofsegments, in the severe lines ofmovement and their alteration –throughout the entire structure of the film – I detect the distant presence ofPicasso. As if the film were an impulsive translation of the painting. That makes the rhyme beautifully complete.” --Rudi Fuchs, 2010. For both works Rineke Dijks

FAQs

What is the exhibition schedule and opening reception time?

The exhibition opens Tuesday, June 29, 2010 and runs through August 21, 2010. The opening reception is Tuesday, June 29, from 6–8 pm.

What does I See a Woman Crying (Weeping Woman) show?

It presents three side-by-side projections in which school children respond to a reproduction of Picasso’s Weeping Woman rather than the original painting, forming an intimate on-screen “conversation” that develops over time.

How was The Krazyhouse, Liverpool UK (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Philip, Dee) created?

The work was inspired by Dijkstra’s 2008 visit to a Liverpool nightclub, where teenagers were filmed dancing to favorite tracks inside a purpose-built studio constructed on the dance floor while the club was closed.

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