At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer.
Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent plywood and two mirrors. From the exterior of the structure, the viewer gazes through a double aperture. The lower aperture reflects into an interior elevated room, the upper aperture extends the line of sight through the booth and into the adjacent booths. On the opposite side, other visitors return the viewer’s gaze.
In this video, Sarah Oppenheimer explains how the piece works, and the gallerists Stefan von Bartha and Alexander Duve talk about the challenges to produce art works for the Unlimited sector of Art Basel.
For more information on Sarah Oppenheimer’s work see also VernissageTV’s documentation of her Artist Talk at the American Academy in Berlin on October 30, 2008, and the coverage of the opening of her exhibition at Duve Berlin on October 31, 2009.
Sarah Oppenheimer: VP-41 / Art Unlimited, Art 40 Basel 2009 art fair. June 10. 2009.
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Art Basel’s Art Unlimited exhibition is the art fair’s sector for large sculptures, and installation and video art. In the first part of our exhibition walkthrough we had a look at works by Elisabetta Benassi, Yoshitomo Nara, Beat Zoderer, Sislej Xhafa, Ayse Erkmen, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Fabrice Gygi, Surdashan Shetty, Farhad Moshiri, Jesús Fafael Soto, Sterling Ruby, Laurence Weiner, Franz Erhard Walter, Steven Shearer, Nedko Solakov, :Mentalklinik, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Stephan Balkenhol, and Matthew Day Jackson. In this part, there’s the works of Gabriele di Matteo, Li Dafang, Willem Boshoff, David Shrigley, Marcel van Eeden, Mel Bochner, Anthony McCall, Sigmar Polke, Steven Shearer, Lawrence Weiner, Goran Petercol, Aernout Mik, Stephan Balkenhol, Tatjana Doll, Chen Zhen, Natalie Djurberg, Sarah Oppenheimer, Bharti Kher, Falke Pisano, Clegg & Guttmann, Banks Violette, and Hans op de Beeck.
The Public Art Projects feature works by Mark Handforth, Jeppe Hein, Valentin Carron, General Idea, John McCracken, Mathieu Mercier, and Ken Price.
Art 40 Basel, Art Unlimited sector. Impressions from the preview. Basel, June 8, 2009.
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The first solo exhibition of the New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer at Duve Berlin presents P21 x P41, two installations with periscope like structures. P41, for example, allows the viewer to peer into the private office area of the gallery. Two holes in a wall, one above the other, allow having two lines of sight simultaneously from any given position. The hole with the periscope doubles the image and inverts it, so that the viewer sees the bottom half of the body above the top half of the body (more information after the jump).
In this interview with Sabine Trieloff, Sarah Oppenheimer talks about her installations at Duve Berlin. In addition to this episode, a video documentary of the artist talk with Sarah Oppenheimer at the American Academy in Berlin that gives a more detailed insight in her work is available on our HD page.
Sarah Oppenheimer: P21 x P41 at Duve Berlin, October 30, 2008. Interview and Opening reception.
PS: Reviews of Sarah Oppenheimer’s work at Artforum Online, Artkrush, and Modern Art Notes. Sarah Oppenheimer at the Mattress Factory, installation shots.
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