Exposición en Zurich, Suiza

David Zink Yi. Rare Earths

David Zink Yi, Untitled, 2019. Glazed stoneware, 55 x 36 x 28 cm. © David Zink Yi. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Dónde:

Hauser & Wirth Zürich / Limmatstrasse 270 / Zurich, Suiza

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Cuándo:

17 ene de 2020 - 29 feb de 2020

Inauguración:

16 ene de 2020 / 18:00

Precio:

Entrada gratuita

Organizada por:

Hauser & Wirth

Artistas participantes:

David Zink-Yi

Enlaces oficiales:

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Etiquetas:

Cerámica Cerámica en Zurich

Descripción de la Exposición

Hauser & Wirth is delighted to present an exhibition by David Zink Yi titled, ‘Rare Earths’. The exhibition comprises new ceramic works which engage with the artist’s direct and intuitive approach to his practice. Rooted in process-based abstraction and the alchemic possibilities of the artist’s materials, the exhibited bodies of works represent a point of departure from previous ceramic sculptural pieces as the artist’s new aesthetic diverges from figuration. Zink Yi is a multimedia artist par excellence. He works with film, installation, performance, sculpture, ceramics, and by extension (in the form of glazes and prints, for example) also with painting. This leads to completely new forms of expression and subjects, yet there is one invisible thread that unites his work: his interest in processes, origins, and the organic connections of things that are imbued with a sensual and intuitive component. Whether they are landscape photographs, jazz music, or ceramics, Zink Yi’s ... works are grounded in working with the hands—about the relationship of the body to the object and the spirit playing with fantasy. This direct, resolute approach to materials stems from Zink Yi’s background. Born in Lima, Peru, in 1973, he grew up with his Chinese grandfather who ran a tannery and also had an impressive collection of Chinese ceramics at home, which was a source of great fascination for Zink Yi as a child. His other grandfather, who was originally from Germany, was a cooper who built his own furniture for his home. Zink Yi decided to go to Germany for his studies, and he first trained as a cook, before studying wood sculpture in Munich and visual arts in Berlin. Growing up in surroundings characterised by crafts and different cultures had an impact on Zink Yi’s conception of himself as an artist: not only is a certain amount of eclecticism inherent in his work, it is actually the fertile ground on which he constantly develops his work with patience, curiosity, and the pleasure of experimentation with forms, colours, and materials. The current exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zürich represents a completely new approach to this basic concept. The large kiln for ceramics in Zink Yi’s Berlin studio, allows him to create objects ranging from small to over lifesize. With it he has created a series of playful, bowlike forms, made of dark stoneware, which he has positioned on the gallery’s large window façade. Titled Garabato, which translates as ‘scribble’ in Spanish, they have the appearance of indeterminable animals, beings, or plants that stand in stark contrast to the transparent surface, like abstract drawings on paper. While their sculptural character evokes the simple vocabulary of Post- Minimalism, their manual, crafted component is evident. A group of steles made of fired stoneware of various colours, on the other hand, confronts viewers with a sort of mild Minimalism, even inside at eyelevel. Their forms derive from the floorplans of high-rise buildings in Hong Kong. Imperfections that are part of the firing process give an anthropomorphic touch to the sculptures, if not an uncanny presence. This impression is supported by the diversely glazed ceramics that are composed of small fragments of clay. In their expressive, organic forms and bright colours they seem much freer and more figural—like spirits whose bodies are captured in movement. Both work groups exude something open, raw, and consciously unfinished: the ‘spirits’ reveal traces of the naked clay, and the ‘high-rises’ with their porous surface structures and crooked forms could just as well still be damp. A multitude of smaller, longer, and colourfully glazed sculptures (All My Colours) complete this interplay: placed in rows on the wall, they form an abstract, serially arranged relief, while being simultaneously reminiscent of samples of materials or glazes, or simply of fish, slugs, or other sea creatures. Zink Yi’s sense of the dialogue between abstraction and narrative, Minimalism and craftsmanship, emotion and conception, and his treatment of material, form, colour, and space are reflected in the printed silk fabrics whose colourful patterns are photographic details taken from the ceramics. The ensemble that Zink Yi has composed for this exhibition is enigmatic: each individual part conveys a tone that contributes to the collective sound of this maritime, minimalistic fabric of associations. The chance that contributed to the forms of the objects leaves the character of their interplay undefined. Composition is not something that Zink Yi can determine ahead of time. Like a jazz musician, he coaxes possibilities from the materials—as he teases the power of imagination from thoughts. About the artist The oeuvre of the Berlin-based artist David Zink Yi revolves around themes of creation, manifestation, and the construction of identity. Born in Lima in 1973, Zink Yi left Peru for Germany at the age of 16. Drawing inspiration from his own experiences, he interrogates the complex aspects of identity construction through his multidisciplinary practice; encompassing film, photography, sculpture, performance, ceramics and multi-channel video installations, which all emphasize the social interrelation of the protagonists, as well as physiological aspects of musical perception. Zink Yi’s art has gained attention for its critical engagement with culturally and emotionally determined actions and experiences. These actions, such as cooking, speaking, dancing, singing, writing and narrating, sketch the complexity of identity, identity-formation and their forms of expression and are most often the performative stimulus for making the works. Over the past decades, the artist has been using natural forms, ritual, music and dance to explore the complex motifs as constructed within cultural traditions. As a medium of expression, the body is often present in the works. It is the place at which the limits between outward and inward experience, between factual history and personal feeling, are drawn. Recent solo exhibitions include ‚Carlone Contemporary’, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria (2018); ‚Being the Measure‘, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA (2016); Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2015); ‚Why Am I Here And Not Elsewhere – Independencia II‘, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany (2013) and Hauser & Wirth Zürich (2013); n.b.k. Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (2012); ‚Horror Vacui‘, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis MN (2011); He has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions and Biennales in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

Imágenes de la Exposición

David Zink Yi, Untitled, 2019. Glazed stoneware, 55 x 36 x 28 cm. © David Zink Yi. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

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