LEEAHN Gallery Daegu presents its first exhibition in 2014: the first private exhibition of Eve Sussman(1961 ~ , American / lives and works in Brooklyn, New York), who has crossed genre boundaries by incorporating film, video, installation and photography in her works. As the most eminent video artist after Bill Viola, Eve Sussman has collaborated with the Rufus Corporation engaging in collaborative production with performers, musicians, dancers and artists as well as Simon Lee, a photographer. Her major works include 89 Seconds at Alcazar (2004) and The Rape of the Sabine Women (2007). While showing her works of art around the world, Eve Sussman combines film, performance, music and dance into her pieces of art characterized by well-elaborated spatial composition and dominant visual aesthetics. In 2013, she displayed her masterpiece ‘89 Seconds at Alcazar (2004)’ at the ‘MISE-EN-SCENE’ exhibition held in the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art.

LEEAHN Gallery Daegu exhibits the artist’s latest work, whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir(2009-2011), a third project of Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation produced in collaboration with Simon Lee. Comprising of over 3,000 images filmed in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kirgistan and Dubai, 80-plus voices and 150-plus music pieces, whiteonwhite: algorithmicnoir (2009-2011) is a self-generating work, where video and audio are edited and played with randomly selected digital contents which are independently tagged based on an algorithm. Without repeating any scene, this work has no limits, no beginning and no ending. Adopting some masterworks significant in western art history as subject materials, e.g. Las Meninas by Diego Velasquez and The Rape of the Sabine Women by Jacques-Louis David, whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (2009-2011) was inspired initially by white on white (1918) by a Russian constructivist painter Kazimir Malevich, unfolding a mysterious story about Mr. Holtz crossing the Soviet Central Asia.

Eve Sussman based in Brooklyn New York has her works housed in the MoMA, the Deutsche Bank, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the London National Gallery. She has been invited to major Biennales (the Fifth Istanbul Biennale and 2004 Whitney Biennale), the MoMA, the Walker Art Center, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

About Works

whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (2009-2011)
Algorithm-based independently tagged digital contents are played in a selected non-repeating sequence in this self-generating work free of limits, beginning and ending. According to Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation, this work was inspired by a Russian painter Malevich’s symbolic work, white on white(1918). They designed the narrative based on Malevich’s idea of abstraction and transcendence to create a splendid and hypnotic montage of failed utopianism of Russian avant-garde. This work was submitted for 2012 Sundance Film Festival-New Frontier Feature and 2012 Berlin International Film Festival, and presented in 2012 at the Walker Art Center, the Bass Museum of Art (Miami) and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (Montreal).

Wintergarden & Seitenflügel (2011)
In collaboration with the Rufus Corporation and Simon Lee, Eve Sussman produced this work inspired by the distinctive Soviet architectural style ‘Khrushchyovka’ (a type of low-budget apartment houses built with concrete blocks). Filmed in Kirgistan, Wintergarden shows the balconies of a typical Soviet apartment complex morphing slowly into one another. Balconies as open space are blocked by residents from the outside. The standardized and idealized architectural style gradually evolves into new styles with individual tastes and expressions added. Seitenflügel(side wing), 2012 filmed in Berlin features the images of a building from morning till night on a day. Eve Sussman installed her camera in an apartment house and observed a one-day life of neighbors. Reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window,’ this work reveals some voyeuristic desire and unrealistically peculiar view ever-present in urban life.

How to Tell the Future from the Past v. 2 (HTTTFFTPv.2)
Eve Sussman collaborated with Angela Christlieb from the Rufus Corporation to complete this work. The landscape slide sequence seen from 6 windowpanes on a train intermittently becomes close to a state of abstraction. It was filmed on a prairie in Central Asia on a 72-hour train trip.

Where the Future Throws a Shadow Over the Land (2009)
‘Where the Future Throws a Shadow Over the Land' is a photo series taken by Simon Lee in the course of producing whiteonwhite. This work, like HTTTFFTPv.2, explores a landscape, taken on a moving transport. Printed on a large etched paper, the photos give smooth and soft feelings, whilst the images deliver a sense of temporal velocity on the verge of imminent future with the darkness of shadowy figures alluding to the approaching future.

Yuri’s Office (2009)
Yuri’s Office is based on photographic images. Eve Sussman took the photos in the well-preserved office of Yuri Gagarin, a former Soviet astronaut, in the Star City Russia, and reproduced his office using the photos. The man in Jeff in Yuri’s Office is an actor Jeff Wood, also featured in whiteonwhite as the hero Mr.Holz. The set in Yuri’s office was also used in whiteonwhite.

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리안갤러리는 2014년 첫 전시로 영화, 비디오, 영상설치 그리고 사진 등 여러 장르를 아우르는 작품을 발표해 온 작가 이브 수스만(Eve Sussman, 1961 ~ , British / Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York)의 국내 첫 개인전을 준비하였습니다. 빌 비올라 이후 가장 주목 받는 영상작가인 이브 수스만은 퍼포먼스와 음악, 무용 그리고 작가와 협업 매니지먼트를 하는 루퍼스 코퍼레이션(Rufus Corporation)과 함께 작업을 해 왔으며 그녀의 대표작인 89 Seconds at Alcazar(2004)와 The Rape of the Sabine Women(2007)을 제작하였습니다. 전세계 미술관을 무대로 전시를 이어가고 있는 이브 수스만은 영상, 퍼포먼스, 음악, 무용 등을 하나의 작품 속에서 녹아내며 치밀한 공간 구성과 뛰어난 영상미가 돋보이는 작품을 만들어 내고 있습니다. 우리나라에서는 2013년 삼성리움미술관 전시 ‘미장센 MISE-EN-SCENE’에 참여하여 자신의 대표작 ‘89 Seconds at Alcazar(2004)’를 소개한 바 있습니다.

리안갤러리에서는 작가의 최근작인 whiteonwhite: algorithmicnoir(2009-2011)를 선보입니다. 루퍼 코퍼레이션(Rufus Corporation)과 사이먼 리(Simon Lee) 가 제작에 참여한 whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir는 특별히 제작된 소프트웨어 프로그램을 사용하여, 80여 개의 보이스, 150여 개의 음악 그리고 러시아, 카자흐스탄, 두바이에서 촬영된 3000여 개의 영상들로 구성되어 있습니다. 알고리즘을 기반으로 각각 태그가 되어 있는 디지털 컨텐츠를 무작위로 선택하여 영상과 오디오를 편집/재생하는 자기 생성적 작품으로 같은 장면은 절대 반복되지 않고 무한하며, 실제로 작품의 시작과 끝을 정의할 수 없는 작품입니다.

벨라스케스의 시녀들, 자크 루이 다비드의 사비네 여인의 겁탈 등 서양미술사에 등장하는 명작을 작품의 소재로 다루는 작가의 Whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir은 러시아 구성주의 대가 카지미르 말레비치의 회화 white on white(1918)을 작품의 출발점으로 하고 있으며, 구 소비에트 중앙 아시아를 횡단하는 미스터 홀츠의 미스터리 한 이야기를 전개하고 있습니다. 최초의 우주 비행사인 유리 가가린(Yuri Gagarin)의 사무실을 배경으로 한 작품 Yuri’s Office 는 러시아 아방가르드의 실패한 유토피아와 미국과 소련의 우주개발경쟁 그리고 공간주의의 관계를 탐구하고 있습니다. Whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir 는 이브 수스만과 루프 코퍼레이션의 세 번째 프로젝트 작품으로 2009년부터 2011년 사이 제작되었으며 2012년 Sundance Film Festival-New Frontier Feature, 2012 베를린 국제 필름 페스티벌에 출품되었고, 2012년 Walker Art Center, Bass Museum of Art (Miami), Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (Montreal)에서 소개 되었습니다.

이브 수스만은 뉴욕 브룩클린에서 작업하고 있으며 그녀의 작품은 뉴욕현대미술관(MoMA), 도이치뱅크, 휘트니 미술관, 런던 내셔널갤러리 등에 소장되어 있으며, 제5회 이스탄불 비엔날레, 2004년 휘트니 비엔날레 등 주요 비엔날레에 초대되었습니다.

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