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A-Z Advanced Technologies

Andrea Zittel

日期
13.02.2007 | 24.03.2007
地址
Massimo De Carlo, Milano
Zittel’s newest work focuses on a reconnection between concept, function and technology (or craft) – the three elements which she believes exist in any constructed object. To her the way something looks, the way it functions and the way it is made are of equal importance, and her work is the proof that art can be conceptual and yet still about the hand and making. Theorizing about social functions, and technical problem-solving assist one another and may ultimately become one and the same process. The works in this exhibition are included under the loosely defining heading of A-Z Advanced Technologies - a cross section of the creative output of A-Z West, Zittel’s home, workshop and testing ground in Joshua Tree, California. Pieces include the A-Z Fiber Form Uniforms, A-Z Single Strand Shapes, A-Z Raugh Furniture, and a series of studies for billboards based on her ongoing collection of “these things I know for sure”. Of particular interest to Zittel are the different ‘rules’ that each material imposes on its own use; what one might term the ‘technologies’ that must be invented in each case. A crochet work, for example, starts from a single point and grows out and round with a continuous forward motion, amassing in even increments stitch after stitch; as the vocabulary of movements allowed define the scope of formal possibilities as well as the functional practicalities. Zittel’s work can be understood as a single, far-reaching enterprise of research or enquiry, under the identity of “A-Z”. The sets of rules she has imposed on herself for the purposes of experiment have been extreme at times – wearing a uniform for months on end, exploring limitations of living space, living without measured time – although to Zittel the invention of one’s own rules is always essentially a liberating experience. In this show she reveals certain applicable principles or truths which have emerged from her ongoing project – an abstract combination, from design principles to observations of human nature.
Andrea Zittel

安德烈·奇特尔1965年生于加利福尼亚州的埃斯孔迪多,目前工作生活在加州约书亚树。


过去的25年,安德烈·奇特尔发展了一种前所未有的艺术实践,涵盖空间、物体和生活方式,针对何为存在并参与当今的文化进行了持续的研究。在培养形式抽象与功能共生的同时,奇特尔通过审查社会规范、价值观、等级制度,以及建立新的生活制度与结构,不断探索“应如何生活?”以及“什么赋予生命意义?”等问题。作品如“WAGON STATIONS”,“LIVING UNITES”,“PLANAR PAVILIONS”和“UNIFORMS”,暗示着可以通过规定限制而非完全自由,以允许创造力存在的系统,并重塑我们对人类需求与结构的思考。自2000年起,奇特尔在莫哈韦沙漠南部开发她的项目“A-Z WEST”,作为“A-Z EAST”的延续,同时她也将加州约书亚树国家公园内的HIGH DESERT TEST SITES作为工作和日常生活调查的实验场地。其实验场所超过50英亩,拥有众多卫星设备,环境、结构和不同元素在此塑造了一个有意策划的独特体验。


其作品曾参加许多重要展览,如惠特尼双年展,纽约惠特尼美国艺术博物馆(2004年,1995年),第45届威尼斯双年展(1993年),第16届伊斯坦布尔双年展(2019年),以及第十届卡塞尔文献展(1997年)。

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