Marianne Vitale (b. 1973) graduated in 1996 from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, White Columns, the Brooklyn Museum, Anthology Film Archives; and international venues such as Le Confort Moderne, France ; Tensta Konsthall, Sweden ; UKS, Norway ; Cass Foundation, London ; Contemporary Art Center of Vilnius, Lithuania.
Some stars, a bridge and birds...
Ann Craven / Marianne Vitale
Curated by Yann Chevallier
The exhibition brings together the work of Ann Craven and of Marianne Vitale for the first time. Both were born in the 1970s and live in New York. One is a painter, the other a sculptress. The exhibition's title - "Some stars, a bridge and birds" - suggests a poetic scene, sketching out the outlines of an idealised landscape. And it is also a partial and objective indication of what we find in the exhibition. These artists' works share a strong attachment to their evocative powers while attempting to reduce the images summoned to a condition of mere motif. Two strategies are employed here: where Ann Craven reproduces and multiplies in order to empty the images of all emotional charge, Marianne Vitale burns matter, mistreating it to make her objects change dramatically within an experienced reality.
The links to time and memory are also a shared feature of the two artists' work. Both try to fix time, to construct mementoes before memory alters them. Ghosts of emotions thus run through Craven's pictures: loved ones and unforgettable moments are metamorphosed into birds, trees and a multitude of moons. And for Marianne Vitale's part, she summons up the history of the pioneers of America's far west as metaphor for a genres-based history of art that she puts on a pyre in to re-appropriate them with a forceful energy.
Stars, a bridge, birds, a stele, mementoes, a facade, fire, scattered stories, a mechanical memory, buried conflicts, common gestures: art and life thrown together.
Text by Yann Chevallier, 2014.
Traduction : Lucian Comoy
Presentation
Selected Artworks
Saturn
2013
335.0 x 750.0 x 20.0 cm / 131.9 x 295.3 x 7.9 in
Pluto
2013
96.0 x 61.0 x 61.0 cm / 37.8 x 24.0 x 24.0 in
Mars
2013
243.0 x 213.0 x 9.0 cm / 95.7 x 83.9 x 3.5 in
Mercury
2013
150.0 x 210.0 x 43.0 cm / 59.1 x 82.7 x 16.9 in
Astroïd
2013
152.0 x 94.0 x 94.0 cm / 59.8 x 37.0 x 37.0 in
Sun
2013
365.0 x 365.0 x 304.0 cm / 143.7 x 143.7 x 119.7 in
Jupiter
2013
140.0 x 790.0 x 650.0 cm / 55.1 x 311.0 x 255.9 in
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Exhibitions In Our Galleries
All Exhibitions
Solo show
2016
New Work, Invisible Exports, New York, USA
Thought Field, Venus Over, Los Angeles, USA
2015
Untitled, Karma, New York, USA
Oh Don't Ask Why, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2014
Nine Worthies, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Bright Dark Future, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Diamond Crossing, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
AMOA-Arthouse, Austin, USA
2012
WHAT I NEED TO DO IS LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP ABOUT A LOT OF SHIT, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
IF YOU EXPECT TO RATE AS A GENTLEMAN, DO NOT EXPECTORATE ON THE FLOOR, Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo, Norway
2011
Too Much Satan For One Hand, IBID PROJECTS, London, United-Kingdom
2010
The Clipper, White Slab Palace, Kunstverein, New York, USA
Presser, Colton & Farb Gallery, Houston, USA
2009
Boiler Quake at Dawn, IBID PROJECTS, London, United-Kingdom
Landswab Over Berberis, Sculpture Center, New York, USA
2008
Tryst at Urn Stye, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA
2007
The Missing Book of Spurs, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
OK KO: Broodies in the Nesting, with Agathe Snow, White Columns, New York, USA
Group show
2016
Sculptures, Matières, Matériaux, Textures…, Hors les murs, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
2015
Art Basel Miami Beach Public: Metaforms, Miami Beach, USA
No Man's Land, The Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA
Scapes, Auto Body, Bellport, USA
Six Doors, Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Teeth Gnash Tennessee, Invisible Exports, New York, USA
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2014
Alter/ Abolish/ Address, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), Washington DC, USA
In nitude, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, USA
Combustion, SAKS gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
The Last Brucennial, New York, USA
Staging Interruptions (Stream of Life), Southard Reid, London, United-Kingdom
Wrong's What I Do Best, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
Archeo, High Line Art, New York, USA
Ann Craven / Marianne Vitale: Des astres, un pont et des oiseaux, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
Natura Lapsa, Entrepôt-galerie du Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Pier 54, High Line Channel 14, New York, USA
2013
Frieze Projects, Frieze New York, New York, USA
Neo Povera, L&M Arts, Venice, USA
Private Collection Selected By #1, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Gent, Belgium
Performa 13, New York, USA
Body Language, Saatchi Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
2012
My Name Is Justin Lieberman: Valet of The Infinite, New Galerie, Paris, France
BRUCENNIAL 2012: Harderer. Betterer. Fasterer. Strongerer. New York, USA
Marianne Vitale & Théodore Fivel: LOST MARBLES, La Marbrerie, Montreuil, France
Mindaugas Triennial, 11th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Eagles, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2011
Analia Saban, Aaron Spangler, Marianne Vitale, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
Are You Glad To Be In America?, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Louise Despont, Jutta Koether, Alicja Kwade, Anj Smith, Marianne Vitale, Unica Zürn, Ibid Projects, London, United-Kingdom
Lost, Invisible-Exports, New York, USA
Norfolk, Thierry Goldberg, New York, USA
The Influentials, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
2010
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Whitney Biennial 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Inaugural Exhibition, KRC Collection, Voorschoten, The Netherlands
2009
The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
The Prompt (Performa 09), White Slab Palace, New York, USA
SUBJECT | MATTER, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, United-Kingdom
Group Show (featuring David Adamo, Jãnis Avotiṉš, Rafael Bujnowski, Ross Chisholm, Aaron van Erp, William Hunt, Christopher Orr, Olivier Richon, Helmut Stallaerts, Marianne Vitale), IBID PROJECTS, London, United-Kingdom
In Practice Fall'09, Sculpture Centre, New York, USA
2007
(Title Bound in Customs), Miami Cinematheque, Miami, USA
Chemical City, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA
The Perfect Man Show, White Columns, New York, USA
2006
Chop Shop, New York, USA
Invasionistas, Kling & Bang, Reykjavik, Island
The "K" Sound, The Kitchen, New York, USA
I Know Who I Am, Sakanama Collective, Brooklyn Int'l Film Festival, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
1998
Dorian Mornthong: Consider the Idiots, Screening, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
2016
New Work, Invisible Exports, New York, USA
Thought Field, Venus Over, Los Angeles, USA
2015
Untitled, Karma, New York, USA
Oh Don't Ask Why, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2014
Nine Worthies, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Bright Dark Future, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Diamond Crossing, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
AMOA-Arthouse, Austin, USA
2012
WHAT I NEED TO DO IS LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP ABOUT A LOT OF SHIT, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
IF YOU EXPECT TO RATE AS A GENTLEMAN, DO NOT EXPECTORATE ON THE FLOOR, Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo, Norway
2011
Too Much Satan For One Hand, IBID PROJECTS, London, United-Kingdom
2010
The Clipper, White Slab Palace, Kunstverein, New York, USA
Presser, Colton & Farb Gallery, Houston, USA
2009
Boiler Quake at Dawn, IBID PROJECTS, London, United-Kingdom
Landswab Over Berberis, Sculpture Center, New York, USA
2008
Tryst at Urn Stye, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA
2007
The Missing Book of Spurs, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
OK KO: Broodies in the Nesting, with Agathe Snow, White Columns, New York, USA
Group show
2016
Sculptures, Matières, Matériaux, Textures…, Hors les murs, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
2015
Art Basel Miami Beach Public: Metaforms, Miami Beach, USA
No Man's Land, The Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA
Scapes, Auto Body, Bellport, USA
Six Doors, Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Teeth Gnash Tennessee, Invisible Exports, New York, USA
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2014
Alter/ Abolish/ Address, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), Washington DC, USA
In nitude, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, USA
Combustion, SAKS gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
The Last Brucennial, New York, USA
Staging Interruptions (Stream of Life), Southard Reid, London, United-Kingdom
Wrong's What I Do Best, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
Archeo, High Line Art, New York, USA
Ann Craven / Marianne Vitale: Des astres, un pont et des oiseaux, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
Natura Lapsa, Entrepôt-galerie du Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Pier 54, High Line Channel 14, New York, USA
2013
Frieze Projects, Frieze New York, New York, USA
Neo Povera, L&M Arts, Venice, USA
Private Collection Selected By #1, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Gent, Belgium
Performa 13, New York, USA
Body Language, Saatchi Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
2012
My Name Is Justin Lieberman: Valet of The Infinite, New Galerie, Paris, France
BRUCENNIAL 2012: Harderer. Betterer. Fasterer. Strongerer. New York, USA
Marianne Vitale & Théodore Fivel: LOST MARBLES, La Marbrerie, Montreuil, France
Mindaugas Triennial, 11th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Eagles, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2011
Analia Saban, Aaron Spangler, Marianne Vitale, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
Are You Glad To Be In America?, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Louise Despont, Jutta Koether, Alicja Kwade, Anj Smith, Marianne Vitale, Unica Zürn, Ibid Projects, London, United-Kingdom
Lost, Invisible-Exports, New York, USA
Norfolk, Thierry Goldberg, New York, USA
The Influentials, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
2010
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Whitney Biennial 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Inaugural Exhibition, KRC Collection, Voorschoten, The Netherlands
2009
The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
The Prompt (Performa 09), White Slab Palace, New York, USA
SUBJECT | MATTER, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, United-Kingdom
Group Show (featuring David Adamo, Jãnis Avotiṉš, Rafael Bujnowski, Ross Chisholm, Aaron van Erp, William Hunt, Christopher Orr, Olivier Richon, Helmut Stallaerts, Marianne Vitale), IBID PROJECTS, London, United-Kingdom
In Practice Fall'09, Sculpture Centre, New York, USA
2007
(Title Bound in Customs), Miami Cinematheque, Miami, USA
Chemical City, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA
The Perfect Man Show, White Columns, New York, USA
2006
Chop Shop, New York, USA
Invasionistas, Kling & Bang, Reykjavik, Island
The "K" Sound, The Kitchen, New York, USA
I Know Who I Am, Sakanama Collective, Brooklyn Int'l Film Festival, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
1998
Dorian Mornthong: Consider the Idiots, Screening, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
Bibliography
2014
Marianne Vitale and Théodore Fivel : Lost Marbles, 2014
2013
Marianne Vitale : Bright dark future, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
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2012
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2011
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2010
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2008
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Marianne Vitale and Théodore Fivel : Lost Marbles, 2014
2013
Marianne Vitale : Bright dark future, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Eckstrand, A.M. "New York - Marianne Vitale: 'Diamond Crossings' at Zach Feuer Gallery through June 15, 2013. Art Observed, May 2013
Biczel, Dorota. "The Pleasant Contemporary: Liam Gillick/ Marianne Vitale at the Contemporary Austin." Glasstire December 2013
Green, Kate. "Marianne Vitale." Artforum.com, September 2013.
Johnson, Ken. "Marianne Vitale." New York Times, 7 June 2013, C28.
2012
Miller, Michael H. "Marianne Vitale Has Been Burning Bridges." Galleristny.com, January 2012.
Rosenberg, Karen. "Marianne Vitale at Zach Feuer Gallery." The New York Times, 10 February 2012, C31.
Vitale, Marianne. "Things on and Above my Desk." Art in America, February 2012, 50-51.
2011
Marianne Vitale : What I need to do is lighten the fuck up about a lot of shit
2010
Reinbold, Mary. "Studio Visit: Marianne Vitale." Flash Art Online, February 2010.
2008
Goldstein, Andrew. "Artist Marianne Vitale Pitches a Tent in Hell." NYMag.com, 8 December 2008.