Karl Holmqvist, Klara LidénICHBRAUCHEMASSPACENovemberNov 14th, 2015 - JanuaryJan 16th, 2016Gaga Mexico City
Gaga is pleased to announce ICHBRAUCHEMASSPACE, Karl Holmqvist’s third show at the gallery (Entrevista con el vampiro 2009 y The hours of this watch is numbered 2012) this time together with Klara Lidén in a two person exhibition.
Both artists share a long and close friendship and have collaborated several times. For ICHBRAUCHEMASSPACE Lidén created a series of benches with new and recycled material as well as a motorized mobile using cardboard boxes with the words ON and/or NO graffitied in pink, produced for the first time for NEW THEATER in Berlin and used as part of the stage design for Holmqvist’s play The Rant. Karl is presenting a set of twelve new paintings using texts from diverse references, word and visual plays, and two Lettriste sculptures made in stainless steel and fluorescent lights that read TUFF and SHIT. As well for this show both artists collaborated in a new dance video titled Nhite Woise.
Again we can observe throughout the show the elements usually portrayed by the artists such as their interest for language, architecture, the utilitarian, the decorative, the public and the private, and the in and out references of each of them.
The pieces in the show reveal an intimate relation between each other, one says YES, the other one NO, one piece is on the floor the other on the wall, and all around we can read in repeated occasions how one is no one and how we need each other mutually, always, although it often seems impossible…
Installation
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Works
Karl Holmqvist
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (LICKMYLEGS), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (NUFFUN), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (#WATCHMEDANCE), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (GOOD4YOU4GOOD), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (UNONOESNINGUNO), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (ICHBRAUCHEMASSPACE), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (#WATCHMEDANCELICK), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (ONEONEISNOONE), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (ONEISNOONE), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (YESEYES), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (IFFYIFFYEYESEYES), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (IFFYIFFY), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (SHIT), 2015
Stainless steel and fuorescent lamps
50.98 x 34.65 x 34.65 inches
129.5 x 88 x 88 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (TUFF), 2015
Stainless steel and fuorescent lamps
50.98 x 34.65 x 34.65 inches
129.5 x 88 x 88 cm
Works
Klara Lidén
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal
17.72 x 72.83 x 29.53 inches
45 x 185 x 75 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal
17.52 x 71.26 x 27.76 inches
44.5 x 181 x 70.5 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal
17.72 x 64.96 x 22.83 inches
45 x 165 x 58 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal
17.72 x 63.78 x 23.82 inches
45 x 162 x 60.5 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Cardboard boxes, motors, white rope and graffiti
Dimensions variable
Video stills
"Nhite Woise"
Klara Lidén / Karl Holmqvist
Nhite Woise, 2015
HD video 00:04:17