Kiss! You will be instantly charmed by me..., 2005 oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas, 60" x 50" (152.4 cm x 127 cm) Fiona Rae You are the Young and the Hopeless PaceWildenstein is pleased to present "You are the Young and the Hopeless," Fiona Rae's debut solo show with the gallery and her first New York exhibition in seven years. A selection of paintings and works on paper dating from 2005-2006 will be on view. The works range in size from 23" x 16" to over 7' x 6'. A catalogue with an essay by Dave Hickey accompanies the exhibition. Of Rae's paintings, Dave Hickey says in his essay, "The spill, the pour, the gestural swatch and the painterly drawing, the depictions of natural life and mythological animals, the appliqué and silhouette, the high, the low, the oriental, the Victorian and the late medieval all coexist in a dreamlike, pre-Enlightenment pictorial atmosphere that is less concerned with the differences than with similarities, less concerned with the hierarchal relations than with the lack thereof… Fiona Rae's new paintings function as palimpsests of her whole persona. The Hong Kong girlhood is there, the childish enthusiasms, the taste for Bosch and Dürer, the New York School aspirations…." Beyond this Hickey examines Fiona Rae's newest work not only in the context of her own painting over the years but in the larger future of the history of art. What will happen, he asks, when "diversity reaches the threshold of entropy, when all the tribes of modernism are, once and forever shattered and dispersed and the covert bond of 'knowing' between artists, dealers, critics and collectors has evanesced into the air?" Hickey continues, "... the sense of community that is asserted by obeying the rules dissolves, and art becomes more wholly visible, more democratic, more inclusive, and more self-evident." Fiona Rae (b.1963, Hong Kong) received her B.F.A. from Goldsmiths College, London in 1987. One year later, Damien Hirst included Rae in his now legendary group exhibition "Freeze." In 1990, she was selected for the 44th Venice Biennale, and nominated for the Turner Prize at the Tate Britain, London in 1991. Soon thereafter, she was short listed for the Eliette von Karajan Prize for Young Painters in Austria. The Saatchi Gallery exhibited Rae's work (with Gary Hume) in 1997, and later that year, because of her association with the Young British Artists, Rae was included in the Royal Academy's notorious 1997 traveling exhibition "Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection. "She was elected to The Royal Academy in 2002. In 2002 the Tate Modern commissioned Rae to paint a 10-meter triptych, "Shadowland," for the museum's restaurant. The following year, she received a major commission for the BBC. The result was, "Signal," an installation for Art Site, BBC's Broadcasting House Public Art Program, in London. The Carré d'Art in Nîmes, France mounted a large survey exhibition of her work in 2002. Following this show, Rae joined the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London, and her first solo exhibition, "Hong Kong Garden," opened to critical acclaim. The Tate appointed Rae to its Board of Trustees in 2005. Fiona Rae's work can be found in 23 public collections worldwide, including the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England; Carré d'Art, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nîmes; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, Sintra, Portugal; Tate Collection, London; and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Fiona Rae currently lives and works in London. Exhibition: November 3, 2006 - December 2, 2006 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 10am - 6pm PaceWildenstein 545 West 22nd St. USA-New York, NY 10011 Telephone + 1 212 989 4258 Fax + 1 212 989 4263 Email info@pacewildenstein.com www.pacewildenstein.com |
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