A SMALL GESTURE, 2012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm, Archival ink printing
BROTHERS, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
CASH, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
ELMO, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
FLASH CRASH, 2012 – 2013, 51 x 43 cm, Archival ink printing
GLOBAL PALLOR, 2012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm, Archival ink printing
GOLDEN CALF, 2012 – 201, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
GREASING THE GAME, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
GREEK ACCENTS, 2012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm, Archival ink printing
HOT FLASHES, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
JUST LIKE ME, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
KHRUSHCHEVS SHOE, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
MARX, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
MAY ´68, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
MEGAPHONES, 2012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm, Archival ink printing
MIRACLE, 2012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm, Archival ink printing
MYSTERIES, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
NUMERIC PROPHECY , 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
SWALLOW (OCCUPY ANNEX), 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
ONCE, 2012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm , Archival ink printing
PASOLINI, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
PAY TO END IT,2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
PETER, 2012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm, Archival ink printing
POLANSKI REDECORATING UNDER HOUSE ARREST, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm , Archival ink printing
REHEARSING, 2012 – 2013,112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
RETURNED,2 012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm, Archival ink printing
ROCK SCISSORS PAPER, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
ROTTEN FRUIT, 2012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm, Archival ink printing
SATISFIED PRISONER, 2012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm, Archival ink printing
STARTLED, 2012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm, Archival ink printing
TALKING BACK, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
TELL, 2012 – 2013,112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
THE BAUHAUS, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
THE CHAMELEON, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
THE LAST HIDING WITH THE FIRST, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
THE LOSERS, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
THE SAINTS TO BET ON, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
THE WAY OUT, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
THE LITTLE PIGGY, 2012 – 2013, 60 x 48 cm, Archival ink printing
UNDER HAWKER´S BLANKET, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
SO BAD, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
WE PAY CASH, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
WHAT THE WORLD REALLY NEEDS, 2012 – 2013, 112 x 87 cm, Archival ink printing
ZARATUSTRA, 2012 – 2013, 51 x 43 cm, Archival ink printing
MALRAUX´S SHOES, Video Still, 2012, Single channel video, 42 minutes
MALRAUX´S SHOES, Video Still, 2012, Single channel video, 42 minutes
MALRAUX´S SHOES, Video Still, 2012, Single channel video, 42 minutes
MALRAUX´S SHOES, Video Still, 2012, Single channel video, 42 minutes
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
Exhibition View. In the Red, 2013
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The Moises Pérez de Albéniz Gallery holds, from the 16th of November, the solo exhibition of the American artist Dennis Adams (Des Moines, Iowa. 1948). The exhibition, entitled IN THE RED, brings together 45 works in an installation conceived for the gallery space and which will be displayed together with his recent video production “Malraux’s shoes” (2012). IN THE RED is an American expression derived from the bookkeeping practice of using red ink to record net losses. Adams adopts this expression for the title of his exhibition to mark the fragile link between the global financial recession of the last five years and more subjective accountings of loss. By layering variations of the physical color red with its metaphoric connotations, Adams sets up a double bind between perception and language.
In his new video work, Malraux’s Shoes, Dennis Adams masquerades as André Malraux (1901–1976), the French writer, adventurer, Resistance fighter, cultural provocateur, art theorist, orator, statesman, and passionate archivist of the world history of art. Malraux’s arrest at age twenty-one by French colonial authorities in Cambodia for stealing bas-reliefs from a Khmer temple is an early testament to what would become his obsessive sampling of visual art from diverse cultures. The set for Malraux’s Shoes is a reconstruction of the iconic photograph of Malraux standing in his study with the plates of his book The Imaginary Museum of World Sculpture laid out on the floor before him. Adams literally steps into Malraux’s shoes, suit, and style and we see the Malraux character walk on and over the images as we overhear his interior monologue, which is interrupted by outbursts of mutterings and ravings. Over the course of the video the subject of the monologue moves freely between Malraux’s time and the present.
Dennis Adams is internationally recognized for his public interventions and museum installations that address the processes of collective memory and social control in the design and use of architecture and public space. He has produced public projects in Austria, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Spain, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. His work has been the subject of over 50 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe. In 1994, two separate retrospectives of his work were held at the Museum van Hedengdaagse Kunst Antwerpen and the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. Adams was represented in the 2000 Whitney Biennial and he has been a faculty member or Visiting Professor at numerous institutions including MIT, Parsons School of Design, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich. He currently teaches 3-Dimensional Design, Sculpture, and the Public Art seminar at The Cooper Union School of Art in New York.
His work is included in major public collections including the MOMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp; Fotomusem Winterthur, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Museum of Modern Art in Chicago or the Walker Art Center, among others.