Urban Incidence  

Louise Bourgeois, Miles Coolidge, Stephen Craig, Stan Douglas, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Candida Höfer, Rachel Khedoori, Hubert Kiecol, Zoe Leonard, Gordon Matta-Clark, Raymond Pettibon, Sigmar Polke, Pipilotti Rist, Gregor Schneider, Atelier Van Lieshout…

March 7 - May 17, 2003

beaumontpublic is pleased to announce an exhibition of works dealing with the impact of urban architecture in contemporary society.

“there is no way of describing a system without resorting to the vocabulary of architecture” Gordon Matta-Clark

The various artists in this show all share a similar sensibility as to a contemporary version of psycho-geographies in urban space. The Works articulate the notion of production of space by use, be it subjective, private (lived space), critical, investigative or performative – at the end, space is always relational and its many incidences come as a point of rupture revealing the totality of possibilities of daily existence.

From the “landscape” woodcut of Louise Bourgeois (The Song of the Blacks and Blues), to the quiet photographs of Miles Coolidge (Central Valley), from Hans-Peter Feldman’s situational street scenes to the eerie site of Stan Douglas’s Downtown Eastside, from the creation of Atelier Van Lieshout’s idyiosyncratic city-scape (AVL-Ville) to Rachel Khedoori’s subversive habitats (Pink Rooms), from Candida Höfer’s oddly sublime interiors (The Metropolitain Museum of Art New York I), (Städtische Werke Nürnberg III), (Städtische Werke Nürnberg V) to Pipilotti Rist’s uncanny video projections onto stuccowork, from Gordon Matta-Clark’s intrusions into the seamless urban fabric (Conical Intersect), (Conical Intersect) to Gregor Schneider’s constant unravelling of Haus UR – all these works are suggestions, or pointers, to an experience of space.