Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
November 11, 2015–January 10, 2016
Yes & No is a special installation conceived for the particular space of the Kunsthaus Bregenz Arena. In recent years, Amy Sillman expanded her investigations from the canvas to the screens of smartphones and tablets, to the inclusion of drawings and the production of zines, while continuously delving into the current situation of abstraction, color, and the diagram. Here, Sillman further explores these paths. By proposing to show everything but paintings on canvas, Sillman is challenging the expectations of a painting show. Yes & No, the artist’s first institutional solo show in the German speaking context, reveals the underpinnings of her modes of working, and openly deals with everything which usually is not at the foreground: the thoughts behind the process of making a painting, on letting an image appear, the relation of fiction and the real, abstraction and figuration. It is a show about beginning and ending, painting and drawing, and the interplay of seeing, saying, and marking.
Yes & No is curated by Eva Birkenstock.
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