David Altmejd

David Altmejd
The Eye, 2011, bronze, (355 x 248 x 235cm), Claire and Marc Bourgie pavilion, Montreal, Quebec. Donation of the artist and the employees of the MMFA
Born1974 (age 50–51)
Montreal, Quebec
Known forSculpting

David Altmejd (born 1974) is a Canadian sculptor who lives and works in Los Angeles.[1] He creates highly detailed sculptures that often blur the distinction between interior and exterior, surface and structure, the beautiful and grotesque, figurative representation and abstraction.[2]

Early life and education

Born in 1974, in Montreal, Altmejd earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal.[3] Altmejd completed his Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University in 2001.

Work

Altmejd's sculptures present viewers with an amalgam of organic random objects such as decapitated werewolf heads with graffiti-style Stars of David, towers made of mirrors, plastic flowers and costume jewelry as creative tools for sculptural systems loaded with what he calls "symbolic potential" and "open-ended" narratives.[4] Altmejd deals with duality in his work, between the contrasts of the beautiful and the grotesque, figurative representation and abstraction, interior and exterior. For Altmejd, there is tension in the dualities of opposites, which is how he creates energy in his work.[5] Werewolf heads appear frequently in his work which in the contemporary art world are widely recognized as being closely recognized with the Canadian creator and visionary. They featured prominently in his 2011 solo exhibition at the Brant Foundation, Art Study Centre, Greenwich, Connecticut, including many other sculpture platforms.[6] Literary figures and popular cultural icons are central to his art and have been seen as in some way resembling the artist, such as Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Matthew Barney, Paul McCarthy, Minimalist artist Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd, and novelists and filmmakers, David Cronenberg, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mary Shelley.[7]

Kara L. Rooney writes of his work, The Vessel (2011), the central piece in his March 2011 show at Andrea Rosen Gallery:

Like Altmejd's figurative giants, 'The Vessel' contains a myriad number of small universes that lodge themselves like secrets in pockets of flesh and plastic. Lengths of fine gold chain, Plasticine hands and ears, shards of mirror and quartz, spools of multi-colored thread, seahorse and insect casts, as well as abstracted references to Avian gods, such as cranes and other airborne creatures, swarm the Plexi castle in a cacophony of frozen movement.[8]

In 2016, Altmejd designed the art for Yeasayer's album Amen & Goodbye which the band described as "Sgt Pepper meets Hieronymus Bosch meets Dalí meets PeeWee's Playhouse".[9]

Exhibitions

Since graduating with an MFA, Altmejd has taken part in many solo and group exhibitions globally, including numerous exhibitions with galleries that represented his work, Andrea Rosen Gallery, N.Y., and Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London. Altmejd's The Swarm at the Andrea Rosen Gallery received acclaim for its new and nuanced approach to sculpture as supposed to his previous monolithic works.[10] In 2003, he participated in the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Poetic Justice curated by Dan Cameron; in 2004, he was included in the Whitney Biennial of American Art curated by the team composed of Chrissie Illes, Shamim M. Momin and Debra Singer to showcase new art made in America. In addition to these exhibitions, he had a solo exhibition at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Metamorphosis (2007) curated by Louise Déry and organized as a travelling exhibition to Galérie de l'UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada, and the Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Alberta.

In 2007, Altmejd represented Canada at the Venice Biennale; his installation The Index and The Giant, was commissioned by curator, Louise Déry for the Canadian pavilion. The sculpture installation was subsequently purchased by the Art Gallery of Ontario,[11] Toronto, and a second part of the installation was acquired by a private collector in Greece.[12]

His work has appeared in major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2010), the New Museum (2010) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2010); the Brant Foundation Art Study Center (2011); MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (2012); Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2015); the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (2015); the Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d'art moderne Grand- Duc Jean, Luxembourg (2015-2016); and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels (2016). From an early date, his work was featured in contemporary Canadian group exhibitions, Artifice 98 at the Saidye Bronfman Art Center, Montreal (1998), the Québec Triennial at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal (2008); Intrus/Intruders at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City (2008) and many more cultural venues.

His more recent work includes solo exhibitions at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, White Cube in Hong Kong (2019), and the David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles (2021).[13][14] His most recent solo exhibition was Mason's Yard at White Cube, which consisted of portrait heads and busts of fantastical human–animal hybrids.[13] He has also appeared in group exhibitions in The Thick Stream in Canada, New York (2021); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Herzliya, Israel (2023); and Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou, China.[13]

Art market

Altmejd is represented by Xavier Hufkens, White Cube (since 2018)[15] and David Kordansky Gallery (since 2020)[16] He previously worked with Andrea Rosen Gallery.[17][18]

Documentary

  • 2012: Chaorismatique, David Altmejd, sculpteur (dir. Rénald Bellemare)

References

  1. ^ Nate Freeman (25 September 2020), Studio Visit: Artist David Altmejd on Cleaning His Studio for a Fresh Start and the Powerful Spiritual Teachings of Eckhart Tolle Artnet.
  2. ^ Lauvaux, Léonie (1 June 2016). "David Altmejd : flux". Critique d'art. Actualité internationale de la littérature critique sur l'art contemporain (in French). doi:10.4000/critiquedart.17565. ISSN 1246-8258.
  3. ^ http://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists/david-altmejd David Altmejd Bio
  4. ^ Tippett 2017, p. 222.
  5. ^ Blurring the lines: David Altmejd on his paradoxical art. Retrieved 13 May 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
  6. ^ Bregman, Alexandra (25 March 2015). "AO On Site – Greenwich, Connecticut: David Altmejd at The Brant Foundation through March 31, 2012". Art Observed. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  7. ^ Jonathan Shaughnessy, Acquisition Proposal for David Altmejd's The Holes, accession #42946, National Gallery of Canada.
  8. ^ Rooney, Kara L. (May 2011). "David Altmejd". The Brooklyn Rail.
  9. ^ "Take a Bizarre Trip Through Yeasayer's 'Amen & Goodbye' Album Art in New "Prophecy Gun" Music Video". 10 February 2016.
  10. ^ Forbes, Alexander (2013). "David Altmejd". Artus 2011-2012: The Collector's Edition. 32 (1): 142–143. doi:10.1386/artus.32.1.142_1.
  11. ^ "AGO Receives Acclaimed Canadian Contemporary Sculpture". Art Gallery of Ontario, Press release. 20 August 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2009.
  12. ^ Sarah Thornton (2 November 2009). Seven Days in the Art World. New York. ISBN 9780393337129. OCLC 489232834.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ a b c "David Altmejd".
  14. ^ "The Vibrating Man". White Cube. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  15. ^ Claire Selvin (30 November 2018), White Cube Now Represents David Altmejd ARTnews.
  16. ^ Nate Freeman (25 September 2020), Studio Visit: Artist David Altmejd on Cleaning His Studio for a Fresh Start and the Powerful Spiritual Teachings of Eckhart Tolle Artnet.
  17. ^ Claire Selvin (30 November 2018), White Cube Now Represents David Altmejd ARTnews.
  18. ^ Sarah P. Hanson (22 February 2017), Andrea Rosen to close gallery spaces in New York The Art Newspaper.

Bibliography

  • Sherer, Daniel. "David Altmejd at Andrea Rosen Gallery: Precarious and Extreme," Whitehot Magazine Feb 16, 2014
  • Tippett, Maria (2017). Sculpture in Canada. Douglas & McIntyre. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
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