Double Contour with Side Bars
2000
Mixed media , 4 parts
Variable dimensions
The four parts of Double Contour with Side Bars beckon the viewer to stroll between deeply heterogeneous worlds. An installation brings together religious symbols in a plethora of statuettes and kitschy colours. At the same time, there is a monochrome white city with a collapsed mountain echoing the sacred mountain of the nearby table. An environment of red layers takes shape in a third installation, while a fourth table is reduced to its most common use as a thing to put objects on.
Mike Kelley develops a personal vocabulary to explore his spatial memory, which he already did in older works such as Educational Complex in 1995. By assembling materials from a wide variety of sources, he criticises rigid educational standards, especially those dictated by religion.
A protean, complex work, Kelley's Double Contour with Side Bars is in the Pinault Collection. It was first exhibited during the "Sequence 1" show at the Palazzo Grassi.
Mike Kelley develops a personal vocabulary to explore his spatial memory, which he already did in older works such as Educational Complex in 1995. By assembling materials from a wide variety of sources, he criticises rigid educational standards, especially those dictated by religion.
A protean, complex work, Kelley's Double Contour with Side Bars is in the Pinault Collection. It was first exhibited during the "Sequence 1" show at the Palazzo Grassi.
Exhibitions
Mike KELLEY © Adagp, Paris.
Exhibition view, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, 2000.
Mike KELLEY © Adagp, Paris.
Photo : Santi Caleca
Exhibition view, Sequence 1, Palazzo Grassi, May 5 - November 11 2007: in the background, Memory Ware Flat #17.
