Opening: 16.3.2023, 6-8pm
Opening hours: Fridays, 5-8pm and by appointment via
nest.exhibitions@zhdk.chIn cooperation with Ursula Hauser Collection
This show presents works by the two U.S. artists Lee Lozano (1930–1999) and Paul McCarthy (*1945). The artistic practices highlighted in this exhibition are situated in different specific metropolitan contexts and times. On display are Lee Lozano’s early drawings of anthropomorphic tools and grotesque amalgamations of fragmented body parts, along with later conceptual pieces that usher in her withdrawal from the art field. The sculptures and a video work by Paul McCarthy on view hint at his sprawling artistic practice. He famously caricatured the (male, abstract expressionist) painter in the 1990s and, over the following years, a much broader range of mystified figures in popular culture like pirates and Santa Claus.
Why establish a dialog? Confronting the two bodies of work prompts us to think beyond binaries, dissect and unfold the notions of work, piece, series, rejection, and distribution. It sheds light on repelling artistic articulations that deploy conceptual, graphic, raucous, sexualized, and abject languages. Their controversial contents and aesthetics continue to be perceived ambivalently.
The students of the BA Fine Arts program, Floyd Bolliger, Mirijam Botros, Yuhyun Chung, Yan Lam Fung, Costanza Giorgi, Win Yan Nesta Or, Laura Piatti, Sara Pineda Fernandez, collectively curate this exhibition in the module NEST: ART & EXHIBITING with loans of the Ursula Hauser Collection.