Art Unlimited | Michel Auder

Newman Popiashvili Gallery in collaboration with Aurel Scheibler Mitte is pleased to announce the participation ofMichel Auder in the Art Basel | 42 in the Art Unlimited section.
Michel Auder will present the sculptural video installation Dinner Is Served, a reference to the artist's preparation of a visual feast for his viewers. At the heart of the installation is a curved wall suggestive of a ship run aground that is pierced by raw wooden posts several meters in length. Thirteen monitors, lashed to the poles, transmit layers of translucent footage juxtaposing the elements – fire, water, earth, wind, and sky – with the creatures that populate them. Sensuous and absurd associations are conjured up in a loosely woven structure echoed by the web of timber poles, sailing rope and a soundtrack of chaos and rhythm reflecting in turn nature and culture.
For over forty years Michel Auder has been observing his surroundings through a camera lens. He has seldom neglected to record an event in his life, which has taken him in and out of the experimental Zanzibar Group of the 1960s, the Chelsea Hotel and Warholian crowd of the 1970s, the decadent New York artworld of the 1980s and nearly everywhere else outside of Manhattan. During his various work phases, he has slipped into a variety of roles: silent participant, discreet accomplice, or simple observer. His work has embraced each new medium for capturing moving images, from the launch of Sony's Portapak in 1969 to mobile-phone cameras, thereby incorporating into his body of work the history of video technology for the common user.
Auder's approach of shooting and archiving images and sounds from low-end cameras, refining them sometimes years later into his singular poetic and surrealistic collages, has earned him worldwide recognition. His works are found in the collections of major international museums and institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions and screenings have been held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the European Kunsthalle in Cologne, Cubitt in London and Lunds Konsthall in Sweden.

For further information and images please contact
Marisa Newman at marisa@npgallery.com or
Irena Popiashvili at irena@npgallery.com + 1 917 690-8886

Art Unlimited Preview: Monday, June 13, 2011 4 pm - 7 pm
General public: Wednesday, June 15 to Sunday, June 19, 2011 11 am - 7 pm