Hilger Contemporary is delighted to present Dust Storm
(Manter, Kansas) 2007 in Art Chicago. This is the second
in a series of works by John Gerrard which
feature Dust Storms from the 1930's Dust Bowl remade virtually
and placed on the landscapes as they stand today. The artist
has described these works as 'memorial structures'. Here Joseph
Wolin writes about the first of these Storm works in Modern
Painters magazine:
'Landscape and time have remained the subjects of many of Gerrard’s
subsequent works, each of which can take him and his Austrian
team up to six months to design .... Dust Storm (Dalhart,
Texas, USA)—seen in the group show last summer at
Marian Goodman Gallery in New York—similarly
invokes ecology. In the 2007 animation, an ominous tempest looms
on the horizon of a rural grassland. The work’s panoramic
view comes from photographs the artist shot on location, the
image of the storm from 1930s archival photos of the Dust Bowl,
which resulted from the confluence of cyclical drought and the
reckless expansion of agricultural activity made possible by
fossil fuel–powered farm equipment. But Gerrard devised
the algorithm that defines the dark cloud’s roiling by
looking at video of a dust storm in Anbar Province in Iraq,
taken by an American soldier. In a strange reversal, Dust
Storm makes our contemporary thirst for oil, and an attendant
blindness to its effects on the world, animate a historic catastrophe
in the panhandle of George W. Bush’s home state, a disaster
that was likewise driven by oil, rapaciousness, and willful
ignorance of the consequences'.
"Introducing: John Gerrard" by Joseph Wolin from
the November 2007 issue of Modern Painters.
John Gerrard (1974, Dublin) is based in Dublin, Ireland and
Vienna, Austria. He received a BFA from the Ruskin School
of Oxford University, UK, an MFA from the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, USA. Currently work by the artist can
be seen in Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
in the exhibition: John Gerrard / Joy Gerrard, 12 April -
24 May 2008. Recent solo shows include Dark Portraits, RHA
Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (12.06) travelling to hilger contemporary,
Vienna, Austria (1.07) Recent group shows include Equal,
That Is To The Real Itself, Marian Goodman Gallery, NY,
USA, (08/07) Singing the Real, National Gallery of
South Africa, SA. (07/07) Landscapism, Islip Museum of Art.
Islip, USA, Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy (11.06).
The 4th Seoul Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of
Art, South Korea (10.06).
Dust Storm (Manter, Kansas) 2007
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Further artists at art chicago 08: Daniele Buetti, Oliver
Dorfer, Andreas Leikauf, Brian McKee, Angel Marcos, Massimo
Vitali.
Contact: hilger contemporary, ernst.Hilger@hilger.at,
www.hilger.at.
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2007
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