The Aspen Art Museum will host Nicole Wermers

Friday, 30 March 2007 01:50

Aspen, CO - The Aspen Art Museum proudly presents the first one-person U.S. museum exhibition of German artist Nicole Wermers, beginning May 29, 2007.  A free public reception with the artist will be held on Friday, June 29, 2007, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The exhibition will remain on display through Sunday, July 22, 2007.

Nicole Wermers creates playful, Modernist sculpture inspired by ubiquitous elements of everyday society, including airport security metal detectors and ashtrays.  Her Untitled Forcefields are inspired by the structures at the exits of department stores.  In her Kusine —the German word for female cousin—Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column is updated, feminized, and transformed.

Although a sculptor in the traditional sense—working on discrete objects and placing them in relationship to each other, as well as to the space in which they are contained—Wermers’ choice of materials conveys a wry sense of humor.  In a beachscape constructed by the artist, cigarette butts are intermixed with the sand, becoming, as Wermers states, “leftovers of a very elegant but unhealthy way of wasting time.” In another exhibition, she punctured the exterior of an exhibition space in England with a giant earring.

For her Aspen Art Museum exhibition, Wermers will assemble complete series of works that have not previously been shown together.  All of the included works address dematerialization, or the negation of volume.

Nicole Wermers received her MFA from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London, in 1999. She has had one-person exhibitions at the Camden Arts Center, London; Secession, Vienna; and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.  Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zürich; and the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.  She has also been selected to participate in the 2006 Tate Triennial and the 4^th Berlin Biennale in 2005.

Organized by AAM Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, the exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated brochure with an essay by Zuckerman Jacobson.

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