Thursday, 9 February 2006 | Levent OZLER
Elsewhere by Javier Marchán
Solo Show by Javier Marchán the first visual artist in residence in Hejduk's Wall House, Groningen, NL, curated by Olof van de Wal for the Wall House Foundation, the Netherlands
January 22nd - March 12th 2006 in Wallhouse - http://www.wallhouse.nl
January 22nd, 2006 marks the opening of Elsewhere, a solo show by Spanish visual artist Javier Marchán in the Wall House, John Hejduk's masterpiece in Groningen, the Netherlands. Marchán lived in the house for a period of three months, October till January 2005 and was the first visual artist to stay in the house as part of the artist in residency programme of the Wall House foundation. The installations can be visited until March 12, 2006.
During his stay in the Wall House, Marchán became fascinated with the tension Hejduk summons up between the two and three dimensionality, a tension referred to by Marchán as the fourth dimension. Fascinating though the spatiality in the Wall House is, Marchán maintains that the building in essence is a two dimensional image, a still life. This tension, the fourth dimension, is what Marchán regards as the principal concept for his work in Elsewhere, together with the strong sense of symbolism Hejduk invokes in his work. Marchán has produced a set of twelve silk screens and spatial installations throughout the Wall House#2.
Javier Marchán (Barcelona,1967) engages in interdisciplinary aspects of contemporary art, design, architecture, theory and authorship. His artworks are fictional, neo-abstractive and multi-layered; using a variety of visual media to propose evolving notions of perception, significance and consciousness. He favors a visual practice where the representative nature of meaning - bounding together what we call 'reality' - gets emptied out momentarily. This methodology is done in order to get a more profound relation to art and to the perception of reality. Marchán has been working both independently and in collaboration with many individuals from different disciplines in order to challenge traditional formats of artistic practice. His work is being exhibited internationally.
John Hejduk (New York, 1929-2000) was educated at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union in New York. He followed a study course in which architecture was strongly integrated to other visual arts (as in the Bauhaus). Hejduk would eventually teach at the Cooper Union Institute and later occupy a position as dean of the college. Hejduk began his career as an architect at the end of the fifties. His first designs were a series of rigid geometric schemes for dwelling houses, including the Wall Houses. With the exception of Groningen, where Wall House no. 2 is realized, his early work never advanced further than the drawing board and three-dimensional model form. His reputation is primarily the result of his novel theories and ideas on architecture.
Adres: A.J. Lutulistraat 17, Hoornse Meerwijk, Groningen
telefoon: 050-5250980
fax: 0842202466
e-mail: info@wallhouse.nl
postadres: Hofstraat 21, 9712 JA Groningen
coördinatie: Olof van de Wal
projectmedewerker: Benthe van Aalst
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