Time Samples
Artist: Alison Knowles Curator: Caterina Gualco Archivio Emily Harvey San Polo 387, second floor 30125 Venice, Italy Opening: Friday, June 23, 2006, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Until August 5, 2006 Tuesday to Saturday, 5:00-8:00 p.m. Artist and performer Alison Knowles presents new works in paper, entitled Time Samples. The prints of the series A Rake's Progress, shown in the gallery's first room, were made with a twisted garden rake employed like a pencil in wet pulp. Here this rake is displayed on a table. Knowles' new book Time Samples (Granary Books, New York) opens out into a leporello, and here spills down the wall. Book Jacket, a shirt suspended from the ceiling, has the pages of two books embedded in its folds. Two Poets Tee and Emily Harvey's Overalls are similarly displayed. The objects presented in the rear room of the gallery were appropriated in cities and natural settings all around the world, and the artist presents them for examination, one at time, to be held in the hand. Small tags offer clues to their identity. Curator Caterina Gualco writes: You make me see things I was not able to see before, and that is the mystery of poetry. Knowles is a founding member of the Fluxus group and a Guggenheim fellow. She has received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a residency grant from Germany's DAAD. She has also resided in Kassel as a guest of Documenta. In 2003, she received the College Art Association Award for Lifetime Achievement, as well as an honorary doctorate from the Maine College of Art. The exhibition's catalogue, with an essay by George Quasha, is available online at www.aknowles.com Oh Odin's Underpants its a B(owman)LOG http://bowmansramblings.blogspot.com/ Visit the Freeformfreakout Organisation Online: http://www.freeformfreakoutorganisation.net
