PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY FUNDRAISER AUCTION 2008 PREVIEW
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B.C. Binning
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Based in Copenhagen, British conceptual artist Simon Starling’s (b. 1967) beautifully inventive works often reference and connect multiple points in the history of Modernism, while drawing relationships to contemporary processes of globalization. Writing in The Guardian after Starling was awarded the prestigious 2005 Turner Prize, art critic Adrian Searle has noted, “Backstory is everything in Simon Starling’s work.” Starling himself has described his work as, “A physical manifestation of a thought process.” In past projects such as Le Jardin Suspendu (1998), Starling has crafted a radio-controlled airplane from balsa wood, cut from a tree in Ecuador, and flown above a Modernist villa in Melbourne, Australia. His 2007 exhibition at Presentation House Gallery featured Wilhelm Noack oHG, an elaborate sculpture and film installation that documents the interior of the Berlin metal manufacturing firm that fabricated the sculpture itself. The platinum/palladium photograph by Starling for Presentation House Gallery is a study for a film installation whose subject is an elegant wooden chair designed by Italian Carlo Mollino in 1959. Although his photographs are often rigorously conceptual, the lush tones of this print (a rare method of processing in black and white that gives a greater tonal range than modern printing techniques) also draw out an unexpected richness in the Modernist aesthetic of Mollino’s chair. In 1999, Starling received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists and a Blinky Palermo Stipendium from the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig, Germany. In 2004, he was short listed for the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Prize. Starling is currently the subject of a mid-career survey exhibition at The Powerplant, Toronto. Starling is represented by Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York; Galleria Franco Noero, Turin; The Modern Institute, Glasgow; and Neugerriemschneider, Berlin.
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