Pablo Bronstein
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Hovedstaden, Copenhagen, 06/11/2011 - 08/14/2011
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The works of Pablo Bronstein (born 1977, Buenos Aires, based in London) offer a satirical take on the relationship between architecture, power and the individual.
Bronstein’s works on paper, with their elaborate pastiche of architectural eras and movements, are what first brought the artist to attention. However, his installations and performances are also key elements of his oeuvre, and extend the artist’s practice into the realms of space and action.
The centrepiece of Bronstein’s exhibition at Charlottenborg is a new architectural installation created especially for Copenhagen. The installation takes the form of a giant pissoir which drains directly onto the gallery floor, and which visitors are invited to enter and use. A neighbouring gallery features drawings that locate the pissoir in a wider architectural discourse, including drawings of latrines, sewage works and bath houses – and including many works made especially for the exhibition.
The pissoir, like many of Bronstein’s works, evokes the monumental neoclassicism that is a recurring strand in Western art and architecture. Bronstein’s installation satirises this tradition, but also suggests a more serious point: how power attempts to use architecture to direct behaviour – and to define what it means to be a citizen – even down to the codification of pissing. The final gallery contains a video which centres on a performance in a style of courtly movement known as sprezzatura: a work that extends the artist’s exploration of codified bodily gestures.
Curated by Mark Sladen, Charlottenborg’s director. The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Council (Committee for International Visual Arts) and the British Council. Accompanied by a publication (available from late June, price 40 kr.).
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The works of Pablo Bronstein (born 1977, Buenos Aires, based in London) offer a satirical take on the relationship between architecture, power and the individual.
Bronstein’s works on paper, with their elaborate pastiche of architectural eras and movements, are what first brought the artist to attention. However, his installations and performances are also key elements of his oeuvre, and extend the artist’s practice into the realms of space and action.
The centrepiece of Bronstein’s exhibition at Charlottenborg is a new architectural installation created especially for Copenhagen. The installation takes the form of a giant pissoir which drains directly onto the gallery floor, and which visitors are invited to enter and use. A neighbouring gallery features drawings that locate the pissoir in a wider architectural discourse, including drawings of latrines, sewage works and bath houses – and including many works made especially for the exhibition.
The pissoir, like many of Bronstein’s works, evokes the monumental neoclassicism that is a recurring strand in Western art and architecture. Bronstein’s installation satirises this tradition, but also suggests a more serious point: how power attempts to use architecture to direct behaviour – and to define what it means to be a citizen – even down to the codification of pissing. The final gallery contains a video which centres on a performance in a style of courtly movement known as sprezzatura: a work that extends the artist’s exploration of codified bodily gestures.
Curated by Mark Sladen, Charlottenborg’s director. The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Council (Committee for International Visual Arts) and the British Council. Accompanied by a publication (available from late June, price 40 kr.).