2012
10 copies
Signed certificate
10 copies
Signed certificate
14 pairs of resin casts
Installation size variable
Installation size variable
Taken from the language usurped by Twitter, the title for Ryan Gander's “I’m Trending” is prescribed to the way in which multiplied uses of a word, idea or concept grow in popularity based on the nature of repetitive use.
By the artist's account, this project is viewed as a collision between the book and an artwork; what happens when various forms coalesce? Paralleled with the “Loose Associations” conferences initiated in 2001 (and just as eclectically diffused in assemblage and interpretation) Ryan Gander's “I'm Trending” is a series of tools and clues from which our established patterns of logic, thought and design are questioned and redefined.
Resin casts measurements:
— 4 boards of 30×30×0.85 cm, 2 yellow, 2 white — 4 boards of 30×27×0,85 cm, 2 blue, 2 yellow — 4 boards of 30×24×0,85 cm, 2 green, 2 blue — 4 boards of 30×21×0,85 cm, 2 magenta, 2 green — 4 boards of 30×18×0,85 cm, 2 orange, 2 magenta — 4 boards of 30×15×0,85 cm, 2 purple, 2 orange — 4 boards of 30×12×0,85 cm, 2 white, 2 purple
Ryan Gander (b. 1976) belongs to the generation of post-Conceptual artists working with media — and life — as if it were language. Yet, the experience is sensorial, and physical. Regarding one of Gander's installations, one has the uncanny feeling of being part of the work, whether it is in relation to a stick as a lamp, or a small sheaf of papers on the floor. Surfing from performances, lectures, and clothing as art, to books that look like ziggurats, Gander has developed a practice that defies easy definition. A recent exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo featured a classic Gander work — a Modernist chaise longue facing a window behind which the most banal household objects flowed by on a conveyor belt, like at a sushi bar. Gander's take on design, signage, communication, language, exhibition structures, and the role of the artist, are interwoven with ever-increasing complexity and daring.
“I'm Trending” is a joint publication between Three Star Books and Westreich/Wagner publications.
By the artist's account, this project is viewed as a collision between the book and an artwork; what happens when various forms coalesce? Paralleled with the “Loose Associations” conferences initiated in 2001 (and just as eclectically diffused in assemblage and interpretation) Ryan Gander's “I'm Trending” is a series of tools and clues from which our established patterns of logic, thought and design are questioned and redefined.
Resin casts measurements:
— 4 boards of 30×30×0.85 cm, 2 yellow, 2 white — 4 boards of 30×27×0,85 cm, 2 blue, 2 yellow — 4 boards of 30×24×0,85 cm, 2 green, 2 blue — 4 boards of 30×21×0,85 cm, 2 magenta, 2 green — 4 boards of 30×18×0,85 cm, 2 orange, 2 magenta — 4 boards of 30×15×0,85 cm, 2 purple, 2 orange — 4 boards of 30×12×0,85 cm, 2 white, 2 purple
Ryan Gander (b. 1976) belongs to the generation of post-Conceptual artists working with media — and life — as if it were language. Yet, the experience is sensorial, and physical. Regarding one of Gander's installations, one has the uncanny feeling of being part of the work, whether it is in relation to a stick as a lamp, or a small sheaf of papers on the floor. Surfing from performances, lectures, and clothing as art, to books that look like ziggurats, Gander has developed a practice that defies easy definition. A recent exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo featured a classic Gander work — a Modernist chaise longue facing a window behind which the most banal household objects flowed by on a conveyor belt, like at a sushi bar. Gander's take on design, signage, communication, language, exhibition structures, and the role of the artist, are interwoven with ever-increasing complexity and daring.
“I'm Trending” is a joint publication between Three Star Books and Westreich/Wagner publications.
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