EXHIBITION

Fontane Gurgulear

Los Angeles Museum of Art, California, Los Angeles, 08/14/2016

1600 Campus Road Los Angeles, California 90041

ABOUT

You are cordially invited to Fontane Gurgulear, an installation by Kim Schoen, opening at LAMOA August 14th 

from 3—6 p.m. Schoen works with the rhetorics of display across various mediums. Her interest in fountains dates back to a residency at Fabrikken in Copenhagen, where she experienced Tivoli Gardens in the dead of winter. The video she made there, The Second Oldest Amusement, was shown alongside another video, Have You Never Let Someone Else Be Strong (shot un-permitted at the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas) at her 2015-2016 solo show at MMoCA. Wet Technologyy, a suite of performative photographs made in 2015, features ornamental fountain nozzles put to new use. Fontane Gurgulear (The Drooling Fountain) now continues her line of inquiry into the pathetic aspects of the often spectacular or propagandistic uses of fountains. Schoen’s work re-inserts the idea of the human body back into the mechanics of display. 

The brochure’s text that advertises Fontane Gurgulear (featured above) is written in Occidental Language. Occidental is an invented language, devised in the 1920s by Edgar de Wahl based on various Western (Occidental) languages. In addition to the brochure, a series of posters advertising the fountain are located around the Occidental College Campus, featuring empty fountains and their exposed piping, reflected in the installation at LAMOA.

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Kim Schoen

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