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Simon Starling
Saturday, March 24, 2007
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Simon Starling is a distinguished British artist who has quickly risen to international prominence. Born in 1967 in Epsom England and a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, he was the recipient of the coveted Turner Prize in 2005 and was shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2004. He currently lives in Berlin and Copenhagen and is Professor Fine Arts at the Staedelschule, in Frankfurt Germany. He has exhibited widely including the Bienal de Sao Paulo in 2004 and he represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2003. He currently has an exhibition at Casey Kaplan in New York. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Stadlischen Kunstmuseum Zum Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany (2007) MIT and Mass MOCA ( 2008) as well as Villa Arson, France, MACRO, Rome, Italy, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, and Museum of Modern Art in Australia.
At Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver will be the North American premiere of a new installation by Starling entitled Wilhelm Noack oHG of 2006 – a 35 mm black and white film projection and projector apparatus. Here, footage of an old metal workshop of the Berlin manufacturing firm) and the mechanics of its making are conceptually intertwined. This piece reflects the artist\’s interest in craftsmanship and industrial production, and outmoded forms of technology. Starling\’s works have often involved performative sculptural acts and labour intensive processes that transform physical materials as histories of place. In Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No 2), 2005, for example, he dismantled a shed, turning it into a boat loaded with the remains and paddled the boat down the Rhine to a museum where it was remade as a shed.