Monday, January 30, 2006

Gold digging raised to an art form

Who does she think she is fooling? I'm interested in buying some art! Have I told you I'm a millionare!?

ANDREA FRASER
Untitled
JUNE 10 - JULY 9, 2004
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 6-8 PM

Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce Untitled, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Andrea Fraser. The exhibition will be comprised of two works, Untitled, 2003, and DonÕt Postpone Joy, or Collecting Can Be Fun, 1993.

Untitled, 2003 was initiated in 2002 when Andrea Fraser approached Friedrich Petzel Gallery to arrange a commission with a private collector on her behalf. The requirements for the commission were to include a sexual encounter between Fraser and a collector, which would be recorded on videotape, with the first exemplar of the edition going to the participating collector. The resulting videotape is a silent, unedited, sixty-minute document shot in a hotel room with a stationary camera and existing lighting.

Untitled is a continuation of Fraser's twenty-year examination of the relationships between artists and their patrons. Known for her performances in the form of gallery tours and analyses of collecting by museums, corporate art institutions, and private collectors, Untitled shifts the focus of this investigation from the social and economic conditions of art to a much more personal terrain. The work raises issues regarding the ethical and consensual terms of interpersonal relationships as well as the contractual terms of economic exchange.

This exhibition is the United States premiere of Untitled. It was first presented publicly in Andrea Fraser, Works: 1984-2003, a mid-career retrospective organized by the Kunstverein in Hamburg, in the fall of 2003. It is currently on view at the second venue of Fraser's retrospective, the Dunkers Kulturhus in Helsingborg Sweden.

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