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Living With Video: The Way Things Go at the Kramlich Collection

Posted in: Program item|July 11, 2012

Living With Video: The Way Things Go at the Kramlich Collection

July 12–August 25, 2012

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The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) is an art film by the artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss that premiered in 1987 at Documenta 8. The work depicts a nearly half-hour long series of sustained chain reactions involving non-glamorous every-day objects such as kettles, chairs, mattresses, balloons, tires, ladders, and trash bags. These ordinary objects perform a kinetic display of cause and effect as they crash, burn, melt, explode, ignite, dissolve, rotate, slide, and bang, exhausting the energy released from the breakdown of one another. The film documents a constant battle between predetermined precision and probabilistic implausibility; and the artists ensure a seemingly miraculous continuity in scene after scene where disorder and failure would have been the more likely outcome. Carefully choreographed by Fischli/Weiss, the objects in this 100 feet-long installation on stage in a large warehouse seem to have been given performing roles by the artists, and meticulously trained for their act. As Jeremy Millar describes in his book on this particular work, the film embodies many of the qualities of Fischli/Weiss’s oeuvre: “slapstick humor and profound insight, a forensic attention to detail, a sense of illusion and transformation, and a dynamic exchange between states of order and chaos.”

collectorspace is very pleased to present the Kramlich Collection with this iconic example of video art that happened to be one of the first pieces that entered the collection. Based in San Francisco, Pamela and Richard Kramlich have been collecting video, film, and time-based art for over two decades. In 1997, they established The New Art Trust along with Tate Modern, The Museum of Modern Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to support research and preservation of time-based media art.

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Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012) worked as an artist duo between 1987–2012. Fischli/Weiss won the Golden Lion Prize at the 2003 Venice Biennale. A retrospective of their work was exhibited at Tate Modern, London in 2006, and traveled to Kunsthaus Zurich and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

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With special thanks to VIP Art Fair for allowing the screening of the collection visit video as part of the presentation of the Kramlich Collection at collectorspace. 

Video produced by Philip Dolin & Molly Bernstein of Particle Productions, New York.

Living With Video: The Way Things Go at the Kramlich Collection

Posted in: Program item|July 11, 2012

Living With Video: The Way Things Go at the Kramlich Collection

July 12–August 25, 2012

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Living with Video: The Way Things Go at The Kramlich Collection from collectorspace on Vimeo.

The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) is an art film by the artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss that premiered in 1987 at Documenta 8. The work depicts a nearly half-hour long series of sustained chain reactions involving non-glamorous every-day objects such as kettles, chairs, mattresses, balloons, tires, ladders, and trash bags. These ordinary objects perform a kinetic display of cause and effect as they crash, burn, melt, explode, ignite, dissolve, rotate, slide, and bang, exhausting the energy released from the breakdown of one another. The film documents a constant battle between predetermined precision and probabilistic implausibility; and the artists ensure a seemingly miraculous continuity in scene after scene where disorder and failure would have been the more likely outcome. Carefully choreographed by Fischli/Weiss, the objects in this 100 feet-long installation on stage in a large warehouse seem to have been given performing roles by the artists, and meticulously trained for their act. As Jeremy Millar describes in his book on this particular work, the film embodies many of the qualities of Fischli/Weiss’s oeuvre: “slapstick humor and profound insight, a forensic attention to detail, a sense of illusion and transformation, and a dynamic exchange between states of order and chaos.”

collectorspace is very pleased to present the Kramlich Collection with this iconic example of video art that happened to be one of the first pieces that entered the collection. Based in San Francisco, Pamela and Richard Kramlich have been collecting video, film, and time-based art for over two decades. In 1997, they established The New Art Trust along with Tate Modern, The Museum of Modern Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to support research and preservation of time-based media art.

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Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012) worked as an artist duo between 1987–2012. Fischli/Weiss won the Golden Lion Prize at the 2003 Venice Biennale. A retrospective of their work was exhibited at Tate Modern, London in 2006, and traveled to Kunsthaus Zurich and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

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With special thanks to VIP Art Fair for allowing the screening of the collection visit video as part of the presentation of the Kramlich Collection at collectorspace. 

Video produced by Philip Dolin & Molly Bernstein of Particle Productions, New York.

Turkish Art New and Superb

Posted in: exhibitions|June 9, 2012
May 23, 2012 to July 28, 2012

Turkish Art New and Superb

Tanas, Berlin, Germany

23 May–28 July 2012

Arab Express. The Latest Art from the Arab World

Posted in: exhibitions|June 8, 2012
June 16, 2012 to October 29, 2012

Arab Express. The Latest Art from the Arab World

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

16 June–29 October 2012

Resonance and Silence. Synesthetic aspects of film and video

Posted in: exhibitions|June 8, 2012
April 13, 2012 to September 9, 2012

Resonance and Silence.  Synesthetic aspects of film and video

Collection Goetz, Munich, Germany

13 April–9 September 2012

My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways

Posted in: exhibitions|June 8, 2012
March 1, 2012 to September 30, 2012

My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways

Vanmoerkerke Collection, Oostende, Belgium

1 March–30 September 2012

Gerwald Rockenschaub

Posted in: exhibitions|June 8, 2012
May 25, 2012 to September 2, 2012

Gerwald Rockenschaub

Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul

25 May–2 September 2012

Exhibition—Ahmet Öğüt or Whistle Spontaneously

Posted in: |June 8, 2012
June 20, 2012 to July 21, 2012

Exhibition—Ahmet Öğüt or Whistle Spontaneously

Delfina Foundation, London

20 June–21 July 2012

Moving Image in China 1988–2011

Posted in: |June 8, 2012
April 22, 2012 to July 29, 2012

Moving Image in China 1988–2011

Centro Per L’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

22 April–29 July 2012

Berlinde de Bruyckere

Posted in: exhibitions|June 1, 2012
June 21, 2012 to August 26, 2012

Berlinde de Bruyckere

ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey

21 June–26 August 2012

La Triennale 2012

Posted in: |May 12, 2012
April 20, 2012 to August 16, 2012

La Triennale 2012

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

20 April–16 August 2012

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