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Andrea Fraser 2007

February 8, 2007- March 10, 2007

Reception: February 8, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Andrea Fraser

Friedrich Petzel Gallery

535 W 22nd St

Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a solo exhibition of works by Andrea Fraser. Fraser continues to explore art historical representations as well as representations of artistic subjectivity that art institutions produce as legitimate through forms such as catalogues and audio guides. The exhibition will feature a series photographs and a video installation, both of which appropriate materials produced and distributed by museums themselves. explore art historical representations through the use of appropriated material.

On view for the first time in the United States, the photographs are recent prints from slides created by the artist in 1984. The slides were produced by superimposing and re-photographing slides of works by Renaissance and Modern masters Titian, Raphael, Pollock and de Kooning that were borrowed from museum slide-libraries or purchased at museum gift shops., and were The images, related to a series originally published in an artist book that took the form of a fictitious exhibition brochure, “Woman1/Madonna and Child 1506-1967” (1984). The book, aimed to examine how art historical texts history construct the artist as a transhistorical subject, and, in particular, how that construction is articulated in relation to representations of women. The resulting images, large-scale photographs, are dissonant and grotesque, a mash-up of Renaissance figuration and Modernist abstraction in which Raphael’s Madona meets her opposite in de Kooning’s women, and Titian’s Venus disintegrates under Pollocks all-over field.

Also on view is A Visit to the Sistine Chapel, 2005, a video commissioned by Brancolini Grimaldi and filmed at the Vatican Museum. Like Little Frank and His Carp, 2001, a video filmed at the Guggenheim Bilbao, A Visit to the Sistine Chapel follows Fraser as she enters a museum and tries to be a good visitor, doing what she’s told by the audio guide. However, instead of being commanded to sensually stroke the museum walls, as at the Guggenheim, the Vatican Museum guide tells Fraser to be pious--a difficult task in a the context of the mass tourism that has turned the Vatican into a religious Disneyland rather than the meditative sanctuary the guide professes it to be.

This is Andrea Fraser’s third solo exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery. Fraser exhibits in both the United States and internationally. Her work is currently on view in “Into Me / Out of Me,” which originated at P.S. 1 – MoMA, New York in 2006, is now at KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, and is soon traveling to Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome. Her work is in public collections worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Gallery, Berlin, and Tate Modern, London. In 2005, the MIT Press published Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser. Fraser recently relocated from New York to California to join the art faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Books and DVDs related to artists in this show

Location   Gallery Friedrich Petzel Gallery Address 535 W 22nd St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-680-9467 Fax 212-680-9473 Hours Tue-Sat 10-6 Nearby: All 10 galleries at 535 W 22nd St

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