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2009
Elina Brotherus, "Rétrospective"
Deimantas Narkevicius
Là où les eaux se mêlent
Pratchaya Phinthong "What I learned I no longer know; the little I still know, I guessed"
Nord, Nord-Ouest
Roman Ondák "Fluid Border"
Ryan Gander « It’s a right Heath Robinson affair » (A stuttering exhibition in two parts)
Mark Geffriaud « Si l’on pouvait être un Peau-Rouge »
Berlin-Paris, un échange de galeries
2008
Yann Sérandour « Weiss »
Pia Rönicke & Zeynel Abidin Kizilyaprak «An Usual Story from a Nameless Country»
« Faces »
Jiri Kovanda «Two Cushions»
Omer Fast «De Grote Boodschap»
2007
« Cinematic Panorama »
Elina Brotherus
Pratchaya Phinthong «if I dig a very deep hole»
Julius Koller «Space is The Place»
Mac Adams «07-70»
« The Last piece By John Fare »
« Time Flies »
2006
Dominique Petitgand «Quelqu’un par terre (Someone one the ground)»
Pia Rönicke «Rosa's Letters - Telling a Story»
« Jiri Kovanda VS Reste du monde (Tentatives de Rapprochement) »
Roman Ondák «More Silent Than Ever»
« Outside The Living Room »
Deimantas Narkevicius «Instead of Today»
Omer Fast «Godville»
2005
« Petites Compositions entre amis - Séquence 3 »
« Petites Compositions entre amis - Séquence 2 »
« Petites Compositions entre amis - Séquence 1 »
Elina Brotherus «Model Studies»
2004
Pia Rönicke «Without a Name»
Loris Gréaud «Ending Introduction»
Robert Breer
Alban Hajdinaj «My Home is Your Home»
2003
« Links »
« Present Perfect »
Roman Ondák «Talker»
2002
Mac Adams «Beneath The Shadow»
Omer Fast
Deimantas Narkevicius
Dominique Petitgand
2001
Robert Breer
Elina Brotherus «Suites françaises 2»
« Hors-jeu »
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2009
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Where water comes together with other water
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Nord, Nord-Ouest
Roman Ondák "Fluid Border"
Ryan Gander "It’s a right Heath Robinson affair" (A stuttering exhibition in two parts)
Mark Geffriaud "If one were only an Indian"
Berlin-Paris, a gallery exchange
2008
Yann Sérandour "Weiss"
Pia Rönicke & Zeynel Abidin Kizilyaprak "An Usual Story From a Nameless Country"
"Faces"
Jiri Kovanda "Two Cushions"
Omer Fast "De Grote Boodschap"
2007
"Cinematic Panorama"
Elina Brotherus
Pratchaya Phinthong "if I dig a very deep hole"
Julius Koller "Space is The Place"
Mac Adams "07-70"
"The Last Piece by John Fare"
"Time Files"
2006
Dominique Petitgand
Pia Rönicke "Rosa's Letters- Telling a Story"
Jiri Kovanda "Jiri Kovanda vs Reste du Monde (Tentatives de rapprochement)"
Roman Ondák "More Silent Than Ever"
"Outside The Living Room"
Deimantas Narkevicius "Instead of Today"
Omer Fast "Godville"
2005
"Petites compositions entre amis - Sequence 3"
"Petites compositions entre amis - Sequence 2"
"Petites compositions entre amis - Sequence 1"
Elina Brotherus "Model Studies"
2004
Pia Rönicke "Without a Name"
Loris Greaud "Ending Introduction"
Robert Breer
Alban Hajdinaj "My Home is Your Home"
2003
"Links"
"Present Perfect"
Roman Ondák "Talker"
2002
Mac Adams "Beneath the Shadow"
Omer Fast
Deimantas Narkevicius
Dominique Petitgand
2001
Robert Breer
Elina Brotherus "Suites Françaises 2"
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Ryan Gander

Biography

Ryan Gander Born in 1976 in Chester, UK Lives and works in London, UK

Post-Graduate Fine Art Participant, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL

Post-Graduate Fine Art Research Participant, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL

It's a right Heath Robinson affair (A stuttering exhibition in two parts), gb agency, Paris & Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, F

How I learnt to use my senses, how I learnt to think and how I learnt to feel, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, JP

Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead, (with Aurélien Froment) STORE, London, UK

Ghostwriter Subtext, Premier Container, Art Basel Premier with STORE, Miami, USA

Spencer, forget about good, Art Basel Unlimited with Annet Gelink Gallery, Basel, CH

The title taken from reading that book (with George Henry Longly), Elisabeth Kauffman, Zurich, CH

Your clumsiness is the next man’s stealth, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, (with Aurélien Froment) F*

Is This Guilt in You Too – (The Study of a Car in a Field), Art Basel Statements with Annet Gelink Gallery, Basel, CH

Is This Guilt in You Too – (The Study of a Car in a Field), Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

Mille et Tre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, from November (cur : Marie-Laure Bernadac & Pascal Torres-Guardiola)

Project in collaboration with J. Monk, Yvon Lambert Project Space, Paris, from October

Mercosur Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil, from September (cur: Victoria Noorthoorn)

Trying to cope with things that aren’t human, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, US

The Malady of Writing: a Project on Texts and Speculative Imagination, MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, ES

I desired what you were, I need what you are, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK

Trying to cope with things that aren’t human, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK

Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US

Plankjes, tak, Atelier als Spermedium, Artist Space for Contemporary Art, The Hague, NL

Radio Transmitted Time Capsule, with Francesco Manacorda, Radio Gallery, London, UK

Trial Balloons, MUSAC,Musei de Arte Contemporáneo de Castillia y León, León, ES*

Group show: Pierre Bismuth, Ryan Gander, Karl Haendel and T. Kelly Mason, Cohen and Leslie, New York, US

(Artists: Lucy Clout, Nathaniel Mellors, Aurelien Froment, David Renggli, Carol Bove)

Bibliography

Appendix Appendix - A Proposal for a TV Series, JRP Ringier (with Stuart Bailey and Christophe Keller)

Intellectual Colours, Silvana Editoriale and Dena Foundation of Contemporary (with Will Holder), ABN AMRO Award.

Parallel Cards, (with Mia Frostner, Robert Sollis, Paul Tisdell, Rasmus Spanggaard Troelsen)

Works

Investigation # 6 Wabbit

Diamond Playboy poster adjusted with a black and white permanent chalk marker pen to delete all the diamonds and to replace the title with an underscore and speech marks in the manner one would expect to see in the New Yorker Magazine cartoon caption competition.

In the shadow of the Alpinist - (The Twenty Fifth Of June To The First of July, Two Thousand and Thi

A down object that are usually used to prevent coastal erosion, placed in the exhibition space along with a rubdown transfer of one we of the lunar calendar, showing the phases of the moon for the year 2031.

Flashes of beautiful thinking – 15 July 2008

This work consists of one crystal ball containing a laser-etched image of a piece of paper on which I was about to draw when it slipped from the table and fell to the floor. Shown together with a sealed lightproof black polythene bag containing 8 ‘page-per-day’ 2010 calendar pages for the 4 March 2010 (the birth date of the work - that being the first time the work was shown. The calendars included are ‘Insult a Day’, ‘Argyle Sweater’, ‘The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said’, ‘The Original 365 Jokes, Puns, Riddles’, ‘365 New Words a Year’, ‘Origami’, ‘Mind Benders and Brainteasers’ and ‘1000 places to see before you die’.

Fickle Finger (Laure)

A photographic print of Laure Prouvost, a student of Goldsmiths School of art London performing the Fickle Finger Illusion in her studio space, with a black compositional grid screenprinted on the interior surface of the frames glass.

Fickle Finger (Camille)

A photographic print of Camille Stora, a student of Fine Art at the art school Villa Arson, Nice in the South of France performing the Fickle Finger Illusion whilst sketching in the gardens, with two circles screen printed on the interior surface of the frames glass.

Everything we ever imagined and the only way in which we could materialise it

A A0 sized poster showing the tiles of the gallery floor levitating, made in collaboration with Mario Garcia Torres for the exhibition Sculpture of the Space Age for the David Roberts Foundation in September 2009.

Diversion (NOW SHOWING)

Film footage is projected by a video projector on to the wall of a darkened gallery that is made inaccessible and the viewer is prevented from entering by a Gold and Red Stanchion at the entrance to the space. An ornate gilded mirror is positioned on the wall of the darkened space so that only a few spectators can view the footage at once visible as a reflection in the darkness. Outside this space in the main gallery or at the entrance to the gallery is positioned an A0 sized poster in a gilded frame that advertises the screening of a film. The film being a previously lost documentary entitled «The Magic and The Meaning», 2009, the original missing content to: Things that mean things and things that look like they mean things, 2009. A documentary by Ryan Gander that looks directly through the eyes of young artists and examines the romanticism of their gaze.

Both before and after, I had to write your obituary

Two obituaries float mounted, side-by-side in the same frame. Ryan Gander writes one obituary about the life, death and legacy of friend and collaborator Bedwyr Williams and the other is written by Bedwyr Williams about the life, death and legacy Ryan Gander. Both obituaries are fictional. The Obituary’s are typeset by Åbäke as imagined in Newspapers of the future in accordance with the obituaries themselves.

Announcement for the book ‘The Sitting’

A small bundle placed near the entrance to the space, containing newsprint flyer announcing calls for subjects for commissioned conceptual portraits, describing the process and procedure of the commission, including time frame, description of the book of ‘The Sitting’. This work is to be taken by people, but is also available to sell as a sculpture. When the pile is empty the collector must order more flyers to be printed. And visitors are allowed to take a leaflet each, the reverse of the leaflet contains the pattern of peacocks feathers that is printed also on the inside of the end papers of the book, ‘The Sitting’.

A Whole Hole, 2008

A wall-mounted bookshelf veneered with Ebony Maccassar, Oak Bog, and Indian Rosewood, to represent an outline of where ten books may have previously stood. The scale and order of the books refers to a previous work by Aurelien Froment entitled ‘A hole in the shelf’. This work measures 40 (h) x 27 (l) x 18,5 cm (d) (timber thickness 3 cm)

Absorbing the sights and the sounds

A lucky charm pendant one might usually expect to find attached to a Japanese teenager’s mobile telephone. The pendant represents a cartoonified caricature of the fictional artist Aston Ernest, originally modelled by the father of the artist following conversations with his son about the artist’s appearance and demeanour. The model was miniaturised and reproduced with a rapid prototyping process.

Absorbing the sounds and the sights

A lucky charm pendant one might usually expect to find attached to a Japanese teenager’s mobile telephone. The pendant represents a cartoonified caricature of the French curator François Piron, originally modelled by the father of the artist following conversations with his son about the curator’s appearance and demeanour. The model was miniaturised and reproduced with a rapid prototyping process.

Only really applicable to those that can visualise it upside down, back to front and inside out

Five seconds after the spectator leaves the space, a plume of smoke is emitted from the floor in the doorway of the gallery, making it seems as though the spectator disappeared into a puff of smoke. Although other visitors to the space have the opportunity to witness this remnant of the spectator’s presence, it is likely that the spectator activating the work never has the chance to observe it.

Accenture? (Tentative Title)

An antique scrabble board has tiles, which have been replaced with fabricated and aged replica tiles, produced using an alphabet made from the handwriting of the American writer, cartoonist and neologist (an inventor of words) Theodor Seuss Geisel, otherwise known as Dr Suess. The board is presented with its pieces scattered across the floor having been purposefully upturned part way through a game. The title “Accenture? (Tentative Title)”, 2009, refers to a recently invented word meaning ‘accent on the future’, a term used in the advertising world.

Porthole to Culturefield

Wall-mounted ladder rungs are positioned up high on the gallery wall, out of reach of the spectator, leading to the ceiling of the gallery where a metal porthole, painted the same matt white as the walls, has been inconspicuously installed. The porthole is bolted closed.

A round table, a fire crackles, a storm rages in the darkness outside...

An unfolded poster is pinned to the gallery wall representing a show plan for a ‘metaverse’ exhibition by Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), also known as Spike Milligan, an Anglo-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright. The plan is written by a forensic graphologist in the handwriting of Spike Milligan as sampled from his diary entries from the year 1972.

An unfolded poster is pinned to the gallery wall representing two minutes and fifteen seconds of light from my window, overlooking Jardin Villemin, 10e, Paris, France, starting at 14:17 on 31 January 2009, for the duration of which I was attempting to devise a show plan for an exhibition possibly entitled The die is cast at Villa Arson, Nice, France, in May 2009.

A portrait of Mark Leckey

Your life in seven acts

A reconstructed map of the City of Paris – usually made freely available by the tourist information office – reproduced here to include a number of streets existing before 1911. Most of the streets mark locations where town planners have replaced the cities organic structure with a formulaic interpretation of civic economy. Displayed in a cardboard box near to a door between the zones of the exhibition and other parts of the institution, the map is freely available for the visitor to take.

Having done more work - (Alchemy box # 11)

An Alchemy Box appropriating the vessel of a locked cigar humidor handcrafted from Macassar Ebony. The box is presented on the floor in a corner of the gallery against the wall. The ingredients contained within the box relate to the themes of practice, work ethic, class conflict, legacy and inheritance. The ingredients within are listed on the wall as a text

You can wander off in time and space, visit a place you once knew, make love to a woman you loved…

The work consists of three components: a transparent film placed in the window of the gallery, a photograph of the invigilator of the space and a book of matches in which an ISBN number has been noted. Rain droplets have been printed on a transparent film, which has been placed in the window of the space. In the centre of the film the rain droplets appear to have been wiped by someone’s hand, providing a framed viewable area into the gallery. Behind this wiped area sits the invigilator of the space. A small black and white photograph framed on the wall shows an image of the face of the invigilator gazing out of the window through the rain into the street. On the floor of the gallery is a book of matches, discarded and free for a visitor to pick up, investigate or take. Inside the book of matches the viewer finds a series of numbers written by hand that on first appearance seem to be a telephone number, but on further investigation materialises as ISBN classification of a reference book directing the viewers experience beyond the realms of the gallery, the work continues elsewhere, in the world outside.

L’art pour les o-o

A maquette produced using a rapid prototype method for the proposal of a public sculpture. The public sculpture would be representation of the demolished statue of "the Happy Prince" and swallow as featured in the final part of the children’s story The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. Made from a single piece of stone the sculpture would consist of one solid piece representing the rubble of a ruined work of public art, including details of the forms of the prince’s heart, sword and helmet, as well as the dead swallow.

I am born, I learn to read, walk and speak...

A photograph shows a young woman sitting in café. On the table in front of her is a notepad on which are written the words "Rethink idea of self portrait" in a purple ink fountain pen.

Describe the effect of watching a Godard film - (Alchemy Box # 13)

A black plastic wall mounted "Alchemy Box", the contents of which are sealed within, has a horizontal strip like window of tinted glass set into the front. The window is too dark to view through, however a bright blue LED is continuously lit from behind the glass. The ingredients within the box relate to thinking around the themes of duration, the freeze frame, the still life, motion, twining, the repetitious moment and the moving still.

The markings on the floor that suggest the evidence of a struggle

Several scuff marks are visible on the floor of the gallery from both black and dark blue rubber soled shoes.

Associative Template # 29 ('Of The Fall’s record sleeves’)

An associative photograph numbered 29 from a series of 31, containing articles from research on the theme of censorship, precedence, mimetics, associative methodologies, authorship, ownership and appropriation. A template of the articles from the previous image in the series has been cut out by laser to reveal the gallery wall behind the photograph. The cut out pieces including the mount board, photograph and glazing are also presented, on the floor in the vicinity of the photograph.

Chaos mode - (Alchemy Box # 15)

An "Alchemy Box" disguised as a pebble dashed concrete pillar that one might expect to find in a pedestrianised street or a parking lot. The Alchemy Box contains articles sealed within relating to the theme of civic aesthetics and brutalist architecture, as well as imagined, unrealised, failed or unsustainable ideas for buildings and lifestyles. The ingredients within are listed on the wall as a text near to the pillar.

Here is a work (for the crows to pluck)

A mobile presented with a broken thread, fallen to the floor. The mobile is an assemblage of laser cut pieces taken from four various sources: an Alexander Calder print purchased from the book shop of Pompidou, Paris; impact stars from the cartoon Tintin photographed from the television, used to suggest that Tintin’s canine sidekick Snowy is drunk; pieces cut from a print of a painting by Bruno Munari re-documented on the artist’s studio wall; and pieces that make up the components of Didactease logo devised by Gander as featured in work “There exists only one definition for anything anywhere at anyone time”, 2007.

How I learnt to feel

Three silhouettes on the exterior of the windows of the gallery are produced from a layering of a variety of hundreds of existing children’s stickers. The three silhouettes are of a newly invented Francophile cartoon character of an artist named Aston Ernest and existing cartoon characters Mr. Magoo and Bécassine. The three characters between them also hold the same characteristics of the monkeys from the fable of the three wise monkeys with the inability to hear, see and speak respectively.

The pen marks on the page suggest the characters head does a double take...

A number of public death announcements in the form of black and white A1 sized photocopied posters are pasted onto the gallery wall. It is visible that there are two types of posters and that each type has been produced in reverse as well as the correct way around.One poster is for the death of the character J. Moriarty – from the stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – one of the brothers of Holmes’s arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty, whilst the other poster is for the character Mycroft Holmes, the brother of Sherlock Holmes. Both characters are mentioned but never visible in any of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The texts on the posters read: Colonel J. Moriarty has expired after a long and difficult struggle grappling with that to which he was the most susceptible. The funeral will take place on the 4th of May at Englische Kirche Meringen, Kirchgasse, Meiringen 3860 and Mycroft Holmes, Gentleman and extraordinary artist has passed away in full serenity, without regrets or unfinished business. The funeral will take place on the 4th of May at Englische Kirche Meringen, Kirchgasse, Meiringen 3860.

Eventually on the 4th of May, the public death announcements are to be pasted to a wall in the Bahnhofplatz in the town of Meiringen, neighbouring Reichenbach Falls, to coincide with the anniversary of the death of Sherlock Holmes and a mass pilgrimage to the town by Sherlock Holmes fans. Reichenbach Falls is the location where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s hero, Sherlock Holmes, apparently died locked in mortal combat with his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty, at the end of the novel The Adventure of the Final Problem.

Investigation # 100 - X is for XyloPhone

A number of black and white XyloPhone keys sit piled on top of one another balanced on the top right corner of an empty white frame. The keys in ascending order from the bottom represent the order of the notes of the Windows XP Start-up theme followed by the Windows XP shut-down theme.

With a smile on your face

A cardboard life-sized cut out, similar to one that might be expected to be found in the entrance to a cinema, stands in the corner of the room facing the wall so that only the reverse is visible to the viewer. The image on the front of the cut out is of the back of the fictional artist Santo Sterne; the image however has been spray-painted a sepia colour so that only the silhouette is visible.

Casting

An image of a architectural computer model, produced by Bell, Travers, Willson Architects Ltd, of The New School of Art and Design, 2004, conceived and designed by Ryan Gander. The image is made up by overprinting on existing messages and notices found on a notice board in the Fine Art department of Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, and then replacing these on a new notice board in the gallery.

Christmas according to *Palmtree*

A mobile containing seven different viewing cards, each presenting a differently proportioned aperture of the most frequently used aspect ratios from painting, film and photography. The aspect ratios from painting are represented by reproductions of viewing cards carried in the top pocket of Gustav Klimt his entire life. The aspect ratios from film are represented by 16:9, 4:3 and Cinescope black laser-cut metal masks and the aspect ratios from photography are represented by a 35mm panoramic aluminium GEPE slide mount, a 6 x 6” medium format aluminium GEPE slide mount and a 6 x 7” aluminium GEPE slide mount.

Template for ‘What the fuck is a mood board anyway?'

A rubdown transfer of standardised printer’s crop and registration marks identify and frame an A4 sized portrait area on the gallery wall. The title of the printer’s file for this empty space is also visible on the wall, it reads: ‘Walk back two paces and half close your eyes’.

You can see straight through it (‘Arguably, Sir, Arguably’)

A cover of a record by the band The Fall, loaned from the writer and film maker Dan Fox and photographed on the wall of the artist’s studio. The cover has then been cut out of the photograph by laser, revealing the wall of the gallery on which the photograph is hung. The cut out image of the record cover complete with mount board and glazing is left on the floor somewhere in the vicinity of the photograph. The act of hanging a record cover of The Fall on the wall of the gallery has been decribed frequently in art press during the year prior to the execution of the work as an analogy for ‘validation through association’. Instigated by the artist Nathaniel Mellors, the idea escalated after a conversation over dinner with Dan Fox and Ryan Gander on the 16th of September 2007 in Lyon, France.

Things that mean things and things that look like they mean things

The work consists of a work inside a work. The spectator is presented with a commissioned

documentary on a flat-screen TV on the subject of the production of the making of an artwork that doesn’t exist entitled The magic and the meaning, 2008. The imaginary film The magic and the meaning, 2008, is described only within the documentary, which follows parts of the making of the film, extracts from interviews with the writer and film maker Dan Fox and the artist and maker of the work Ryan Gander, as well as showing short slow-motion sections of the film that does not exist. The imaginary film The magic and the meaning, 2008, is described as taking the form of a 16mm black and white film study of young art students in an exhibition of Francis Bacon at Tate Britain, London. The film documents the students drawing

and sketching the paintings that they see on the walls in their sketchbooks, an act of association to the world of art a through a romanticisation of it.

The work consists of a work inside a work. The spectator is presented with a commissioned

and sketching the paintings that they see on the walls in their sketchbooks, an act of association to the world of art a through a romanticisation of it.

Basquiat

A single channel video is presented on a monitor placed on the floor of the space. The video shows gallerist Niru Ratnam riding a bicycle in a park wearing a pair of pyjamas. The work is a loose reconstruction on a scene from the film Basquiat, 1996, by Julian Schnabel. The audio element of the video consists of a voiceover of Ratnam reading a press release he had written for the work following the production of the visual element of the video. The press release was written with the full knowledge that it would become the voiceover for the final edit.

Press articles

Click on the underlined parts to download the texts in pdf

Art 21, #22, french, "Ryan Gander, Portrait de l'artiste en artiste", text by Nicolas Fourgeaud, Spring.

Exit Express, #42, italian / french, "Ryan Gander", text by Guillaume Désanges, April.

CAC Interviu, #7-8, english, "Answer is never the same", interview by Raimundas Malasauskas, Summer.

Janus, #22, english, "Back to the future", interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, January.