Galerie Gregor Staiger is excited to present new works by Raphaela Vogel and Monster Chetwynd for this year’s special edition of Paris Internationale. Below you will find contextual information for the works presented in this digital format but please do not hesitate to contact us for full documentations on the artists.
Raphaela Vogel’s works presented here are currently installed in our temporary Milan space and comprise an installation or video sculpture consisting of a painting on animal hide and video projected from a small birdcage. ‘Clown Grock gefangen von Andromeda’ references Giuseppe Cesari’s depiction of Andromeda in the 1602 painting ‘Perseus and Andromeda’, as well as a disembodied head, which may depict either the Medusa’s head carried by Perseus in Cesari’s painting, or a clown’s head in an ornamental architectural feature that appears in the video. Shot at Villa Grock, an expansive mansion built in a mixture of styles by a Swiss Clown in Imperia, Italy (and we may suspect this is not entirely coincidentally chosen for a Swiss gallery in Milan) in the 1920s, the video (not unlike the architecture) conflates references and motifs from the mythological to the present. This work is accompanied by five polyurethane sculptures, each unique though moulded from the same neoclassical jardinière vase imitating an amphora shape and flanked by large handles topped by caryatid finials - giving us a plastic reproduction of an Enlightenment bronze-cast vision of the past as origin of Western civilisation and culture.
Monster Chetwynd’s Bat Opera is an expansive series of paintings that the artist has made throughout her career. They are small and intimate works using color palettes reminiscent of old masters - almost antipodal to her exuberant performance practice, which can fill entire institutions with backdrops and props and involve a large cast of collaborators - and the entire series is devoted to bats: up-close, from afar or featuring the occasional insect or amphibian with a similarly questionable reputation. Below you will find a video of the artist speaking about this series - from finding an illustrated book on bats at the university library that reminded her of Holbein to the Bat Man of Mexico.
Both artists have exhibited extensively in institutions; you will find short bios at the bottom of this page.
RAPHAELA VOGEL
Raphaela Vogel
Amphora, 2020
Polyurethane elastomer
106 x 68 x 47 cm | 41 3/4 x 26 3/4 x 18 1/2 in
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Raphaela Vogel
Clown Grock gefangen von Andromeda, 2020
Oil and oil stick on animal hide, birdcage, feathers, mini projector, video (5 min. looped)
330 x 205 x 110 cm | 130 x 80 2/3 x 43 1/3 in
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Handheld documentation of works in Raphaela Vogel’s exhibition ‘La scultura senza qualità’ in Milan.
MONSTER CHETWYND
Monster Chetwynd
Bat Opera XVIIII, 2020
Oil on canvas paper
Frame: 26.5 x 31.5 x 3.7 cm
Painting: 15.5 x 21.5 cm
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Monster Chetwynd
Bat Opera XXI, 2020
Oil on canvas paper
Frame: 26.5 x 31.5 x 3.7 cm
Painting: 15.5 x 21.5 cm
CHET/WP 65
Monster Chetwynd
Bat Opera XV, 2020
Oil on canvas paper
Frame: 26.5 x 31.5 x 3.7 cm
Painting: 15.5 x 20.5 cm
CHET/WP 59
Monster Chetwynd
Bat Opera XIV, 2020
Oil on canvas paper
Frame: 26.5 x 31.5 x 3.7 cm
Painting: 15.5 x 21.5 cm
CHET/WP 58
Monster Chetwynd (b. 1973, London) lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Recent solo projects include the ‘Monster Rebellion’ at Villa Arson, Nice, ‘Hell Mouth 3’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, ‘Winter Commission’ at Tate Britain, London; ‘The Owl with the Laser Eyes’, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (both 2018); ‘The Green Room & Science Lab and The Panther Ejaculates’, Art Basel Parcours, Basel (2017); ‘Uptight upright, upside down’, CCA Glasgow; ‘JABBA, I’M BACK!’ and ‘Cocaine and Caviar’, Bergen Assembly, Norway; ‘Dogsy Ma Bone’, Liverpool Biennial; ‘Camshafts in the Rain’, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (all 2016).
Recent group exhibitions include the collection presentation ‘Sixty Years’ at Tate Britain, London, ‘NOW’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; ‘Michael Jackson: On the Wall’, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Grand Palais, Paris and National Portrait Gallery, London; ‘Experience Traps’, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (all 2018); ‘Coming Out’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; ‘Dogsy Ma Bone’ for Tate Exchange, Liverpool Biennial Tour, Tate Modern, London; ‘Diorama: Invention of Illusion’, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (all 2017). Chetwynd was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2012. The artist is also represented by Sadie Coles HQ, London; and Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan.
Raphaela Vogel (*1988, Nuremberg, lives and works in Berlin) works across the full range of media, from sculpture to installation, video and painting while crossing from one into the other fluidly and making each medium her own. Since finishing the postgraduate program at De Ateliers in 2014, Vogel has exhibited widely, taking on large institutional spaces with surprising ease while developing a practice that is highly autonomous and idiosyncratic.
Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthaus Bregenz and Haus der Kunst, Munich (both 2019); Kunsthalle Basel; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Goethe Institute, Shanghai: Kunstpalais, Erlangen; Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren (all 2018); Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz (2017); Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; Motorenhalle, riesa efau, Dresden; BQ, Berlin (all 2016); Bonner Kunstverein (2015) and more. The artist’s work has been featured in group exhibitions in numerous venues, such as Kunsthalle Bremen; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; De Pont Museum, Tilburg (all 2020); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles; Fondation Cartier, Paris (all 2019); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Lustwarande, Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg; TARS Gallery, Bangkok (all 2018); Kunstverein Hannover; Kunstverein Braunschweig; Cobra Museum
of Modern Art, Amsterdam (all 2017); Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg; Dortmunder Kunstverein; Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-Do (all 2016), among others.