14. MERLIN
CARPENTER
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| Poor Leatherette at MD 72 ( 2015) |
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| Make your own life. Shopping bags and receipts ( 2006) |
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| 1990 Repainted 9'' Oil on linen 100x70 cm. |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
Born 1967 in Pembury, UK
Studies:
Between 1986 and 89 he studied at Saint Martins
School of Art, London UK)
Nowadays:
Lives in Shepperton (UK)
Themes and style:
Over the
past two decades, Carpenter has made personal archaeological excavations of
cultural situations linked to a recent history of art. He seeks 4 premises at
the development of his artwork:
Premise 1: engaging in a dialectic and knowing where
we’re speaking from.
Premise 2: displacing contexts
Premise 3: working on independence
Premise 4: creating a scene that has a use value
Making the viewer feel awkward by creating
exasperating, boring, embarrassing, but also hilarious situations, as well as
having fun. These are ways of reconnecting with a freer atmosphere, other
relationships, other codes eventually to be transgressed in turn. Some of his
shows feel like a rock tour: they happen very quickly, but they’re designed to
undermine their own style (Burberry Propaganda Tour 2013). The question is not
how to put together good or bad exhibitions, but to generate instances of
social intensity and transient art events.
Techniques:
Acrylic on canvas and installation.
Solo
Exhibitions
2015
Hands Against Hands,
Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
MIDCAREER PAINTINGS,
Kunsthalle Bern
Poor Leatherette, MD
72, Berlin
Formalist Sidewalk
Poetry Club, Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami
2014
London, London
DECADES, Simon Lee
Gallery Hong Kong
MD 72 booth,
Art-O-Rama, Marseille
MERLIN, Overduin
& Co., Los Angeles
2013
DECADES, Galeria Nuno
Centeno, Porto
Support nightclub
experience Nightclub, Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Porto
Solo Show II - All
Power to the Factory Outlets, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
POLICE, dépendance,
Brussels
2012
funky house, Limazulu
Project Space, London
Au Café, Bar de la
Victoire / Bureau Capan-Bordes, Nice
TATE CAFÉ, Reena
Spaulings Fine Art, New York
2011
TATE CAFÉ, Simon Lee
Gallery, London
„Heroes“, MD 72,
Berlin
Overduin and Kite,
Los Angeles
2010
Solo Show, Formalist
Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami
Ballard in Narnia,
the interzone, London (with Richard Parry)
2009
The Opening,
dépendance, Brussels
The Opening, Simon
Lee Gallery, London
2008
The Opening, Galerie
Mitterrand + Sanz, Zürich
The Opening, Galerie
Christian Nagel, Berlin (at Mercedes-Welt am Salzufer & The Corner Berlin)
The Opening, Overduin
and Kite, Los Angeles
2007
The Opening, Reena
Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Relax It's Only a Bad
Cosima von Bonin Show, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Vienna
2006
Sounds of War,
Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva
2005
A Roaring RAMPAGE of
Revenge, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Galerie Christian
Nagel, Cologne
Look What You Made Me
Do, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
2004
Nueva Generación,
Distrito 4, Madrid
Take It Easy Default,
M-Project, Paris
2003
Children of the
Projects, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
When in Doubt Blame
the Victim, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz (with Jeremy Glogan)
2002
The Making of 1945,
1997, (screening) The McAllister Institute, New York
Militant, Galerie
Christian Nagel, Cologne
2001
My Father, the
Castaway, WhiteCube, Kunstakademi Bergen, Norway
2000
When You Drain the
Pool, You Don't Consult the Frogs First, Magnani, London
Galerie Max Hetzler,
Berlin
As a Painter I Call
Myself the Estate of, Secession, Vienna
VOLVO, Galerie
Bleich-Rossi, Graz
1999
Survivors, Galerie
Christian Nagel, Cologne
1998
Doppelganger, The Top
Room, London
Chant No 1, Galerie
Max Hetzler, Berlin
1996
Friedrich Petzel
Gallery, New York
1995
Voluntary Effort, Tom
Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles
1994
Friedrich Petzel/Nina
Borgmann, New York
1993
Meet You by the
Strange Twisted Old Oak Tree on the Secluded Knoll at Dawn in Your Swimming
Trunks and I'll Tell You Something Secret. (Don't Be Late). (With Nils Norman),
Galerie Z, Göttingen.
Les Jeunes, Bruno
Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin
1992
Meadow/Wiese, Galerie
Max Hetzler, Cologne
1991
Electric, Pavillon
Ryszard Varisella, organised by Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhardt, Frankfurt
To the extreme,
Fettstrasse 7A (Birgit Küng), Zürich
1990
Crusade, Münzstrasse
10, Hamburg
Group
Exhibitions:
2015
Collected by Thea
Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Painting 2.0:
Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Faux Amis, Simon Lee
Gallery, London
wow! Woven? Entering
the (sub) Textiles, Künstlerhaus, Graz
Macumba Night Club
éditions - Merlin Carpenter / Jérôme Robbe, Artothèque de Villeurbanne, France
Please respond-, M/L Artspace,
Venice
Selbstjustiz Durch
Fehleinkäufe, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg
The 60s, watch it
gallery, London
MUSEUM SHOW by Nang
Gallery, Centre Pompidoo-doo, 2 Lansdowne Rise, London
Call and Response,
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
2014
Excerpts from / How
They Met. Part 1: Mother and Her House / Supastore / The Issues of Our Time
(1&3) / Fille/Garçon / In the Middle of Affairs, Galerie Emanuel Layr,
Vienna
Frieze Art Fair,
booth of dépendance, Brussels
BAR DREI, 681 Morgan
Ave, Greenpoint, New York
Hard Words, Christian
Andersen, Copenhagen
Concept Store, Nest,
The Hague
kim? Salon, Riga,
Latvia
Merlin and Isabelle
Bankside Launch - A Graduate Exhibition by Sabrina Tarasoff, Paris
Coming of Age for
Ages, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
The Hawker,
dépendance at Carlos/Ishikawa, London
2013
The November Issue,
Mathew, Berlin
Performance, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York
„Why Painting Now?“
Cover Up Curated by Antony Hudek, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2012
Redundanz, Dependance
der Galerie für Landschaftskunst Hamburg in der Wandelhalle Bad Tölz, Germany
Port, Galeria Nuno
Centeno, Porto
Context Message, Zach
Feuer Gallery, New York
POST MoDERN (curated
by Clayton Deutsch), Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
2011
Mathew, Berlin
The Institute of
Mental Health is Burning, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Wales
Rituals of the Art
World, Ludlow 38, New York
Rebus, Simon Lee
Gallery, London
A Portrait of the
Artist As a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
2010
Novel, dépendance,
Brussels
Barbaric Freedom,
Simon Lee Gallery, London
2009
Galerie Christian
Nagel, Berlin
Simon Lee Gallery,
London
Sonic Youth etc.:
Sensational Fix, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Untitled (History
Painting), University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA
WIR VERBESSERN IHRE
ARBEIT, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin (show by Instituto Divorciado)
Sonic Youth etc.:
Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2008
The Coma Lounge
Edinburgh, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Congratulations You
Are Represented By Nang Gallery, Nang Gallery, London (and other Nang shows
late 2008)
Sonic Youth etc.:
Sensational Fix, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Buy No Wino Buy Lino
By Bono, Hats Plus, London
Painting: Now and
Forever, Part II, Greene Naftali Gallery / Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
How Can You Represent
When You Can't Pay The Rent, The New Dome, Cable St. Studios, London
Zodiac 3000,
International Project Space, Birmingham, UK
DO WHAT THY WILLT,
Nang Gallery, London
2007
Élégance, Kölnischer
Kunstverein, Cologne
Genesis I'm Sorry,
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (collaboration with Melanie Gilligan)
2006
LIVE HUMANS, The
George Tavern, London
Make Your Own Life,
Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
slow burn (curated by
Jonah Freeman), Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva
2005
Orchard, New York
The Top Room: A
Retrospective, Chelsea Space, London
TOTAL ASBO, Pogo
Cafe, London
Miradas y conceptos
en la colección Helga de Alvear, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
Islands of Glory In
Streets Caked With the Fæces of Decadence, Nang Gallery, London
2004
Werkleitz Biennale,
Halle, Germany
Edge of the Real,
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2003
Wild Nights:
Remembering Colin de Land, CB's 313 Gallery, New York
Messe in der Galerie,
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
Frieze Art Fair,
booth of Galerie Christian Nagel, London
Haupt- und Nebenwege,
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
Malerei II
Ausstellung Nulldrei, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
2002
Art Crazy Nation
Show, MK G, Milton Keynes, UK
2001
Favoritin,
Danzigerstr. 44, Berlin
Jewels-in-Art,
Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz
Works on Aluminum
Selected by Paper, WhiteCube, Kunstakademi Bergen, Norway
Musterkarte,
Goethe-Institut, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Galería Elba Benítez, Galería
Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid
2000
Girlfriend, (Curated
by Sarah Morris), Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig
21st Gear, The Top
Room, London
It May be a Year of
Thirteen Moons But it's Still the Year of Culture, Transmission Gallery,
Glasgow
Drawings, Taché-Lévy
Gallery, Brussels
Part One, Magnani,
London
1999
Painting Lab,
Entwistle Gallery, London
Malerei, INIT
Kunsthalle, Berlin
Robert Prime, London
Taché-Lévy Gallery,
Brussels
1998
Art Club Berlin, Mies
van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona
Art Club Berlin,
Berlin Art Forum
1995
The Message is the
Medium, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle
1994
The Ideal Place,
Haags Centrum Voor Aktuelle Kunst, The Hague
Sarah Staton's
Supastore Boutique, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
Untitled Group Show,
Metro Pictures, New York
Sammlung Volkmann,
Berlin
Museum auf Zeit,
Fridericianum Museum, Kassel
1993
London Photo Race,
Friesenwall 120, Cologne
Galerie Fettsack,
Friesenwall 120, Cologne
1992
A Show by Kiron
Khosla, The Long Gallery, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London
Bruno Brunnet Fine
Arts, Berlin
1991
Paris Bar, Berlin
Luhring Augustine
Gallery, New York
Fallen und Fallen
Lassen, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz
1990
Peace and anarchy
& I love form but she doesn't love me & strange flowers & homage to
Schnabel equals freedom and fun forever, 64-65 Guilford St., London
Heimspiel,
Kunstverein in Hamburg
1989
Rotation - Art
Critic's Art, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne
Public
Collections:
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Orange County Museum
of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Nerman Museum of
Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Representative
Galleries:
Reena Spaulings Fine
Art
Simon Lee Gallery
MD 72
Overduin & Co.
Dépendance
Formalist Sidewalk
Poetry Club
Múrias Centeno
Limazulu
In
his own words:
“I thought the art market would crash. What does
it mean to do all these shows? Which
part of our activity is the art world looking at?
With those paintings, are people interested in
the paintings, are they interested in me, are
they interested in the political content of the
conceptual aspect of it, are they interested in a
distorted version of the political content of the
conceptual aspect, or are they not interested at all?”
For
more Information:
http://www.merlincarpenter.com/TATECAFE.pdf
En
Español:
http://www.museoreinasofia.es/coleccion/obra/fallen-und-fallen-lassen-merlin-carpenter-ulrich-strothjohann-martin-kippenberger