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Dumb Type: 2022, Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

30 April 2022 in Art Comment

Dumb Type: 2022, Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Dumb Type
2022
April 23–November 27, 2022

Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Giardini, Venice, Italy

The Japan Pavilion at the 59th International Venice Biennale presents 2022, a new work by Dumb Type, a pioneering art collective engaged primarily in installations, video works, and performances in museums and theaters both in Japan and overseas.

2022
A new work by the artist collective Dumb Type.

“Mirrors on four stands rotate at high speed, reflecting lasers trained on them to project text onto the surrounding walls. The projected texts are all taken from an 1850s geography textbook, posing simple yet universal questions. The sounds of voices reading the texts are emitted from rotating parametric speakers, becoming highly directional beams of sound that travel around the room. In contrast to the discourses that surround it, the center of the room is an empty space—a place that exists nowhere, but at the same time a place that could be anywhere. We live in a time of post truth and liminal spaces. The center is void.” —Dumb Type

About Dumb Type

Founded in 1984, Dumb Type is comprised of artists from diverse backgrounds—visual art, music, video, dance, design, programming and other fields—all contributing to a great variety of stage and installation productions over the years. They have maintained an open-ended creative style with no fixed director and a changing roster of members participating in each new production as part of their on-going exploration of ever new possibilities in artistic collaboration. Since its formation, Dumb Type has worked toward a broadening of the possibilities for artistic expression. Derived from the diversity of its members and from the different media the group uses, Dumb Type’s work ranges across such diverse media as art exhibitions, performances and live music concerts. Their interdisciplinary efforts continue to transcend existing genres of fine art, theater and dance. Regardless of genre, the essence of their work addresses a variety of social issues related to contemporary society, and the today’s technological reality on a global scale.

Their works has been presented in numerous festivals and exhibitions, including the Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York (1994), Hong Kong Arts Festival (1996), Barbican Centre, London (1998), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1999), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1999), New National Theatre, Tokyo (2000), Singapore Arts Festival (2002), Venice Biennale (2003), Seoul International Modern Dance Festival (2005), Melbourne International Arts Festival (2006), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2007), The Athens Concert Hall (2009), Romaeuropa, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (2017), solo exhibition at Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2018) and Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2019), among others.

The Dumb Type Exhibition at Haus der Kunst Munich will be held from May 6 to September 11, 2022.

Japan Pavilion at the 59th International Venice Biennale

Commissioner: The Japan Foundation
Artist: Dumb Type
Project Members: Shiro Takatani, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ken Furudate, Satoshi Hama, Ryo Shiraki, Marihiko Hara, Hiromasa Tomari, Takuya Minami, Norika Sora, Yoko Takatani and others
Voices: David Sylvian, Maria Takeuchi, Kahimi Karie, Niki
Field recordings*: Yan Jun (Beijing), Crosby Bolani (Cape Town), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Chiang Mai), Kali Malone & Stephen O’Malley (La Tour-de-Peilz), Mukul Patel (London), John Warwicker (Melbourne), Martin Hernandez (Mexico City), Giuseppe La Spada ( Mount Etna), Damian Lentini (Munich), Alec Fellman (New York), Andri Snær Magnason & Kaśka Paluch (Reykjavik), Jaques Morelenbaum (Rio de Janeiro), Atom Heart (Santiago), Cheng Chou (Taipei), Nima Massali (Tehran), Seigen Ono (Tokyo)
*originally recorded for the installation Playback directed by Ryuichi Sakamoto for the Dumb Type Exhibition at Haus der Kunst Munich in 2022

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Katerina Jebb, Supermarket Chicken, 2020

27 April 2022 in Art Comment

Katerina Jebb, Supermarket Chicken, 2020

Katerina Jebb
Supermarket Chicken, 2020
Digital scan on paper
19.7 x 11.8 inches

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David Shrigley, It’s All Your Fault, 2019

27 April 2022 in Art Comment

David Shrigley, It's All Your Fault, 2019

David Shrigley
It’s All Your Fault, 2019

20 Colour Screenprint on Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm Paper
75.00 x 56.00 in
190.5 x 142.2 cm
Edition of 125
Signed by the artist on verso.

David Shrigley is an artist and illustrator best known for his mordantly humorous cartoons. Self-branded as an outsider in the art world, Shrigley is known for making flat compositions that take on the inconsequential, the bizarre, and the disquieting elements of everyday life. Like the musings of a very wise child displaying the wit and humor of a seasoned observer of the adult world, his illustrations feature crossed-out words, scribbled, uneven lines, and darkly funny aphorisms about the world.

In recent years, Shrigley has expanded his practice to include filmmaking. He directed the video for indie-king Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s song Agnes, Queen of Sorrow and co-directed an animated film with award-winning director Chris Shepherd based on Shrigley’s book Who I Am and What I Want. A weekly contributor of cartoons to the Guardian Weekend magazine, he released his first spoken-word album Shrigley Forced to Speak With Others in 2006, which was followed by a double-CD of artists, including David Byrne, Islands, and Grizzly Bear, who put Shrigley’s book Worried Noodles to music.

Shrigley’s work has been exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. In 2013, he was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize for his solo show David Shrigley: Brain Activity at the Hayward Gallery in London.

David Shrigley on His Funny Way of Making Art

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Katerina Jebb, Auto Portrait Oral, 1996

27 April 2022 in Art Comment

Katerina Jebb, Auto Portrait Oral, 1996

Katerina Jebb
Auto Portrait Oral, 1996
Digital scan on paper
39.5 x 39.5 inches

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Gary Simmons, Ghoster #26, 1996

24 April 2022 in Art Comment

Gary Simmons (American, b. 1964), Ghoster #26, 1996

Gary Simmons (American, b. 1964)
Ghoster #26, 1996
76.2 x 55.9 cm

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Francis Bacon, Three Studies for a Portrait, 1976 [center panel]

21 April 2022 in Art Comment

Francis Bacon, Three Studies for a Portrait, 1976 [center panel]

Francis Bacon
Three Studies for a Portrait, 1976 [center panel]

Oil on canvas
In three parts, each: 14 x 12 inches (35.6 x 30.5 cm)
CR 76-13 © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All Rights Reserved.
DACS, London / ARS, NY 2022.

Francis Bacon
Faces & Figures
May 4 – June 11, 2022

Skarstedt New York

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