"vive la france" Claude Wampler show at Postmasters

May 1, 2003

Type: discussion

Greetings!

may 3 - may 31, 2003
CLAUDE WAMPLER
"vive la france"

opening reception: saturday, may 3, 6-8 pm

Postmasters Gallery is pleased to present "vive la france" - an
exhibition of new works by Claude Wampler. Wampler's show consists of
a series of paintings and murals, a video, and a group of objects. In
her installations technology is used tocreate surprising, magical
results. Continuing her exploration of the visible vs. invisible and
presence vs. absence, the artist employs lighting effects which
illuminate or disappear content, questioning the value of access and
consumption of images.

As an extension of her live performance work, Wampler is re-assigning
the task of choreography to the objects themselves resulting in a
destabilization of the traditional relationship between art and it's
audience.
The artist's 2000 exhibition at the gallery "Painting, the movie"
translated film experience into visual installation. Similarly, "vive
la france" turns dance (represented by stills from two choreographed
sequences) into dynamic re-creation of movement.

This is Claude Wampler's fourth solo show with Postmasters.

Over the past few years Wampler has completed a commissioned
installation and video project for the Andy Warhol Museum in
Pittsburgh and a new work for the theater, Present Absence, which
premiered at the Kunstenfestival des Arts in Brussels at Kaaistudios.
A solo show of her visual work was exhibited in Los Angeles at
Richard Telles Fine Art, and in New York she staged a window
installation, Bad Job/Cruel World: Stupidity 2001, Part II, US$700
Stunt with Wedgy, for the New Museum for Contemporary Art, as well as
a performance/lecture, Richard Wampler, for The Whitney Museum of
American Art.
In 2002 Wampler created an installation/performance piece, Ambulance,
at Diverse Works in Houston and a commissioned large-scale project,
Infiltration, for the Museumsquartier in Vienna. She participated in
media city seoul 2002 in Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea. Most recently
Claude Wampler mounted three new exhibitions: denislavant in Paris
at Menagerie de Verre, Song and Dance (and a good movie) in Lisbon at
the Gulbenkian Foundation Center of Modern Art, and Strategies for
Stagefright at the Vooruit Arts Center in Gent, Belgium. Song and
Dance (and a good movie) was later re-configured for the Rotterdam
Film Festival and presented at T.E.N.T./Witte de Witt. This January
she finished a new work, Stable (Stupidity Project Part 10), produced
by the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts which premiered at
Performance Space 122 in New York.

Postmasters Gallery, located in Chelsea at 459 West 19th Street
(corner of 10th Avenue), is open Tuesday through Saturday 11am to 6 pm.
Please contact Magdalena Sawon with questions and image requests.
http://www.postmastersart.com