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Kris Martin
Artist's Name: Kris Martin
Preferred medium: sculpture / plastik
birth year: 1972
Nationality: BE
City: Gent

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Whether working on the scale of monumental sculpture or de-materialized gesture Martin's practice positions itself at the extreme brink of cognition-how knowledge and wisdom is gained at the close of experience or how life is recognized only at the edge of death. Vase is a seven-foot high reproduction of a ceramic Ming vase. Its conditions of existence require that it be broken and reassembled each time it is exhibited. One Hundred Years offers a similar play on entropy and the irreversibility of time's arrow. A self-degrading sculpture, the golden orb will be eventually tarnished by oxidation. Whether its eventual degradation marks the commemoration of great talent now passed away, or, is merely the damp squib of an artist consigned to insignificance remains to be seen. It is only known that all things, art and reputation alike, come to an end. Finality is also the subject of End-Points, an ongoing series for which Martin has isolated and extracted the last period from literature. Like the Mandi III signboard whose ever-changing face announces only its own futility, or the silent scream of a Laocoon from which the very source of struggle has been removed, they are markers in the passage from experience to abstraction. Whether distilled to a single dot or fragmented into a thousand pieces, Martin's art draws from the space in-between, an image of the world in which all activity, monumental or insignificant, may be just killing time. (P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center)

important exhibitions from Kris Martin

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Kris Martin Kunstmuseum Bonn Bonn DE 02.02.2012
The Magnificent Seven. Capp Street: Kris Martin CCA Wattis San Francisco US 15.02.2011
4. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst 2006 Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin DE 25.03.2006
Kris Martin MoMA PS1 - Contemporary Art Center Long Island City US 21.10.2007
Liverpool Biennial 2010 Touched Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Liverpool GB 18.09.2010
The Magnificent Seven CCA Wattis San Francisco US 01.09.2009
Kris Martin CCA Wattis San Francisco US 03.10.2008
Kris Martin Aspen Art Museum Aspen US 11.12.2009
Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial 2011 International Istanbul Biennial Istanbul TR 17.09.2011
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: NEW SCULPTURE Saatchi Gallery London GB 27.05.2011

WHAT'S ON - current exhibitions with Kris Martin

Kris Martin

02/02/2012 - 22/04/2012
Kris Martin Bonn

Die Kunst der Entschleunigung. Bewegung und Ruhe in der modernen Kunst

05/11/2011 - 09/04/2012
Giorgio de Chirico Auguste Rodin Claude Monet Marcel Duchamp Robert Delaunay Umberto Boccioni Jean Tinguely
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Wolfsburg

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Galleries representing
Kris Martin:

Galerie Almine Rech, Brüssel
Johann König Galerie
Marc Foxx
Sies + Höke
White Cube/Jay Jopling

Collections representing
Kris Martin

Burger Collection
Sammlung Boros