For its third consecutive year participating in Paris Photo, David Zwirner presents a solo booth of recent and new work by Christopher Williams (b. 1956, Los Angeles). The artist lives in Los Angeles and maintains his studio in Cologne and teaches in Düsseldorf. His critically acclaimed solo exhibition, The Production Line of Happiness, was recently on view at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The show was first presented at The Art Institute of Chicago earlier this year and will travel to Whitechapel Gallery in London in 2015. Other recent solo exhibitions include those held at Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (both 2011); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; and Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (both 2010).
Since joining David Zwirner in 2000, the artist has had six solo exhibitions at the gallery, including For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 18) which marked his first presentation at the London location in 2013. A solo show of new work by the artist will be on view at David Zwirner in New York (November 6 – December 20, 2014).
His most recent publication, Printed in Germany, was conceived to exist as a standalone visual object and extend the artist’s conceptual and aesthetic concerns into book form. It reproduces a carefully curated selection of Williams’s photographs and features striking graphic design in the near-complete absence of language, with no essay, captions, or even a title page. Through manipulations of cropping, ordering, and pagination, Printed in Germany pushes the boundaries of the artist’s book into new realms. It has been produced in three colors—yellow, red, and green—each of which features subtle differences in layout.
In the 1970s, Williams studied at the California Institute of the Arts under the first wave of West Coast conceptual artists, including John Baldessari and Douglas Huebler, only to become one of his generation’s leading conceptualists. Williams’s work is a critical investigation of the medium of photography and more broadly the vicissitudes of industrial culture, in particular its structures of representation and classification.
EXHIBITION
Christopher Williams
Paris Photo 2014
From 13 to 16 November 2014
Stand B32
Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75005 Paris
France
http://www.parisphoto.com
INFORMATIONS
David Zwirner
• 519, 525 & 533 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
• 537 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
USA
• 24 Grafton Street
London W1S 4EZ
United Kingdom
http://www.davidzwirner.com
