Blondal/Laumann exhibition at TCU's new gallery until March 29

Fort Worth, TX

2/13/2009

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, TCU’s newest gallery at 2900 W. Berry Street, will host a two-person exhibition of work by Icelandic sculptor Margrét H. Blöndal and Norwegian video artist Lars Laumann. Dates are Feb. 14 - March 29, with the opening reception set for 6 to 9 p.m. Feb. 13.

Blöndal’s work most often utilizes found domestic elements to create installations that suggest quixotic reference or function. In their materiality they are most often light and somewhat ephemeral, evoking an existence in a marginal space or uncompleted form. The use of remnants from society to create these structures necessarily allows a continuum of reference from their previous function to how they exist within the sculptural space.

For source material, Lars Laumann has repeatedly turned to popular culture, mining the Internet for material and content for his videos. The topics in two of his most significant works “Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana” (2006) and “Berlinmuren” (2008) utilize individuals with a personal interest in reconfiguring commonplace meaning. Laumann simultaneously confronts the audience with the instability of meaning within society and art, but also humanizes the edges of society.

At noon Feb. 14, Gavin Morrison (exhibition curator) and the two artists will lead a free walk-through of the gallery as they discuss their work with the curator and answer questions from the audience.

For more information, contact Morrison at 817-257-2588 or e-mail g.morrison@tcu.edu.