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April 28, 2006- June 10, 2006
Thomas Bernstein, Mary Buck, Kevin Carter, Claudia Di Gallo, Thorsten Ebeling, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Michel François, Toland Grinnell, Siobhan Hapaska, Liz Larner, Marco Lehanka, Guy Limone, Charles Long, Mark Manders, Christian Marclay, Ulrich Meister, Tony Matelli, John Miller, Curtis Mitchell, Moshe Ninio, Greg O'Halloran, Maurizio Pellegrin, Saly Pepper, Gert Rappenecker, Katy Schimert, Jonathan Seliger, Jana Sterbak, Kerry Stewart, George Stoll, Rosemarie Trockel, Mayer Vaisman, Not Vital
Esso Gallery
531 W 26th StColection/Selection Curated by Francine Benjo and Potassio Pliffi
For Immediate Release Jennifer and Filippo Fossati are pleased to announce the opening of Colection/Selection, an exhibition of sculptures curated by Francine Benjo and Potassio Pliffi, on Friday April 28th at Esso Gallery.
Featuring works by Thomas Bernstein, Mary Buck, Kevin Carter, Claudia Di Gallo, Thorsten Ebeling, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Michel François, Toland Grinnell, Siobhan Hapaska, Liz Larner, Marco Lehanka, Guy Limone, Charles Long, Mark Manders, Christian Marclay, Ulrich Meister, Tony Matelli, John Miller, Curtis Mitchell, Moshe Ninio, Greg O'Halloran, Maurizio Pellegrin, Saly Pepper, Gert Rappenecker, Katy Schimert, Jonathan Seliger, Jana Sterbak, Kerry Stewart, George Stoll, Rosemarie Trockel, Mayer Vaisman, Not Vital
"The act of buying is the first act of criticism" At a time when Ambroise Vollard was trying to sell works by Cezanne or the young Picasso, collectors were known as "Amateurs" (Lovers). Vollard himself explained that "to select and put together a collection requires love, not unconditioned love, but a desire and pursuit of the hole which is said to be love, with all it's chances and a certain critical decree".
Colection/Selection at Esso Gallery reflects the idea of the collector as critic but confronted from a different point of view, a side which may transforms a mere Collector into a Lover. Any person who collects develops an utopia, which is that of being able to put together a catalogue or a personal dictionary of one's vision of the surrounding world. The container, the Wunderkammern (Room od Wonders) is also an utopia, an ideal. The collected things will be placed inside a protected environment and magically abstracted from reality, the way a collection should be, in which everything far is near, within reach, and where the why and the wherefore could be seen and touched, studied, analyzed and catalogued. The spring of this united knowledge is a category that follows curiosity.
Besides the extraordinary group of sculptures, the beauty of Colection/Selection is that it doesn't belong to any category. Now it has it's Wunderkammern - a true impulse of wonder, of discovering a new world, outside of the earth, which will oblige the collector to remake the catalogue of plants, animals, of cults, artificialia, manufactured objects and other works of art, trying to reinvent them for a different use. The marveled look on the world is still one of the high moments of knowledge, to quote again Vollard "as if the miracle is in the eyes that see and not in the things that are seen".
Francine Benjo and Potassio Pliffi, from an "ongoing projects and conversations", number 11, NYC 2006
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