 Untitled, 2003 DVD still Andrea Fraser Untitled Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce "Untitled", a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Andrea Fraser. The exhibition will be comprised of two works, "Untitled", 2003, and "Donat Postpone Joy, or Collecting Can Be Fun", 1993. "Untitled", 2003 was initiated in 2002 when Andrea Fraser approached Friedrich Petzel Gallery to arrange a commission with a private collector on her behalf. The requirements for the commission were to include a sexual encounter between Fraser and a collector, which would be recorded on videotape, with the first exemplar of the edition going to the participating collector. The resulting videotape is a silent, unedited, sixty-minute document shot in a hotel room with a stationary camera and existing lighting. "Untitled" is a continuation of Fraser's twenty-year examination of the relationships between artists and their patrons. Known for her performances in the form of gallery tours and analyses of collecting by museums, corporate art institutions, and private collectors, "Untitled" shifts the focus of this investigation from the social and economic conditions of art to a much more personal terrain. The work raises issues regarding the ethical and consensual terms of interpersonal relationships as well as the contractual terms of economic exchange. This exhibition is the United States premiere of "Untitled". It was first presented publicly in "Andrea Fraser, Works: 1984-2003", a mid-career retrospective organized by the Kunstverein in Hamburg, in the fall of 2003. It is currently on view at the second venue of Fraser's retrospective, the Dunkers Kulturhus in Helsingborg Sweden. "Donat Postpone Joy, or Collecting Can Be Fun", 1993, is a textual portrait commissioned by and based on an interview with a private collector. The work consists of 27-page edited transcript of the interview with all but a few selected words deleted, forming a text of isolated words and phrases that serves as an interpretation of the master transcript. Exhibition: June 10 - July 9, 2004 Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10am - 6pm and by appointment. Friedrich Petzel Gallery 535 West 22nd Street USA-New York 10011, NY Telephone +1 212 680 94 67 Fax +1 212 680 94 73 Email info@petzel.com www.petzel.com |
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