Through December 8, 2010
The Thin
Commandments is a series of ten silk screen-printed aphorisms stemming
from the work of a psychologist, who summarizes her experiences in the
treatment of people exhibiting eating disorders as a list of a Ten
Commandments that is both horrifying and poetic. Catch yourself
agreeing and disagreeing with the statements at your peril as the cults
of diets and exercise collide in a quasi-religious creed. DM
Artist Biography: Johannes
Wohnseifer (*1967, Cologne) lives and works in Cologne and Erfstadt. In
2008, the galleries Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Casey Kaplan, New York
and Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid held solo exhibitions of the artist.
In 2007 Wohnseifer’s series “Kleenex Mathematics” was shown at the
Presentation House Gallery in Vancouver. The exhibition “Vertrautes
Terrain – Aktuelle Kunst in und über Deutschland” at the ZKM in
Karlsruhe and the shows “The Porn Identity. Expeditionen in die
Dunkelzone” at the Kunsthalle Vienna recently presented works of the
artist. Currently, Wohnseifer’s works can be seen at „Compass in Hand:
Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings
Collection” in the New York MoMA.
Works
are courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York.
Photos by Shaun Alvey.
