Archive: Two Notable 1301PE Group Exhibitions

In addition to the recent One Room, One Work exhibition, other notable group exhibitions at 1301PE include 'Together Again Like Never Before: The Poster Work of Michael Asher and Martin Kippenberger' from 1999 and Lincoln Tobier, Jorge Pardo, Sarah Seager, and Rirkrit Tiravanija from 1993.

In keeping with his penchant for peripheral spaces, Michael Asher presented only one poster for the exhibition which was the exhibition's invitation. All framed posters inside the gallery space were by Martin Kippenberger, ranging in date from 1978 to 1997.

Installation views

Sampling of some Kippenberger posters

Abroad: Angela Bulloch & Christian Dior in Japan

In 2005, Angela Bulloch was commissioned by Dior to create a permanent installation for the Dior flagship store in Osaka, Japan. The installation is titled 'Anroidika Descending The Staircase', referencing Marcel Duchamp's famous painting from 1912 'Nude Descending a Staircase'.

The illuminated cubes change color as the viewer walks down the stairs.

Map of Osaka

The Gallery & Los Angeles: Behind the Scenes - Diana Thater catalogue and National Wushu Training Center II

Now available at RAM Publications and 1301PE is Diana Thater's catalogue Between Science and Magic. The catalogue includes installation images of Diana Thater's "Between Science and Magic" (2010) as well as documentation of the work's production. In addition to an interview between Diana Thater and Pernilla Holmes, there is an essay by Helen Varola following the history of the illustrious trick 'pulling a rabbit out of a hat'. According to Varola's essay, this illusion began with a notorious incident surrounding "the bizarre pregnancy of Mary Toft," a woman who in the early 18th century faked giving birth to rabbits, a deception she even performed for the king of England.

Reversible book jacket for Diana Thater's Between Science and Magic

Installation of "Between Science and Magic" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art

Los Angeles: Blue Room and Love Seat

On Sunday, the last day of exhibition "Musée Los Angeles," Jason Rhoade's Blue Room and Love Seat was inflated. Inside the steel truck, which can be turned into a love seat with a blue tarp pad, is a blue tarp room attached to a leaf blower. The leaf blower turns the room into an asphyxiation chamber, complete with viewing window (a face-sized piece of clear plastic the artist sewed into the blue tarp).

Film: John Ford's Upstream at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater

This Wednesday "Upstream" (1927), a silent comedy thought long lost by American director John Ford, is screened at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Wilshire Blvd. The film was one of many important silent films put into cold storage by the New Zealand Film Archive. Because New Zealand marked the last stop in the global circuit for most films, many American films stayed there due to the expense of shipping and are only now being rediscovered thanks to ambitious conservation efforts.

Stills from "Upstream"

The Gallery: FREE BEER (version 4.1) Release BBQ

On Wednesday 1301PE had a BBQ to celebrate the release of FREE BEER (version 4.1). FREE BEER is an ongoing projection by Superflex in which free refers to freedom, not free beer. FREE BEER applies modern free software / open source methods to the traditional real-world product that is beer. The recipe and branding elements of FREE BEER are published under a Creative Commons license, which means that anyone can use the recipe to brew their own FREE BEER or create a derivative of the recipe. A version of FREE BEER is also currently being released in Taipei for the Taipei Biennial.

Los Angeles: Installing Musée Los Angeles

Musée Los Angeles, organized by 1301PE's Mieke Marple, is open until August 29th in downtown Los Angeles. The exhibition is loosely modeled after an exhibition organized by the Société Anonyme at the Brooklyn Museum in 1926. As with the 1926 exhibition, Musée Los Angeles includes four false domestic spaces. However, rather than creating rooms in their entirety, the rooms in Musée Los Angeles are represented through various partial structures influenced by IKEA ratios and aesthetics. More information can be found on the exhibition's online catalogue www.musee-losangeles.com which also features a short passage by Brian Butler on Jason Rhoades's Blue Room and Love Seat. Below are images from the installation of Musée Los Angeles.

Sign for Musée Los Angeles by entrance