Due to scarcity of building materials following the Tohoku Pacific Earthquake and Tsunami, the gallery has postponed its planned presentation of Mika Rottenberg’s video installation Mary’s Cherries. On view instead will be a selection of related photographs and drawings. A follow-up exhibition of the video installation will take place at a later date.
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Courtesy of Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York and Take Ninagawa Gallery, Tokyo
Mika Rottenberg
Mary’s Cherries
Saturday, May 14 – Saturday, June 25, 2011
Opening reception: Saturday, May 14, 6pm to 8pm
Artist Bio
Mika Rottenberg was born in Buenos Aires in 1976, and holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2000) and an MFA from Columbia University (2004). She lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions include a monographic exhibition at de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam (2011); M – Museum Leuven, Belgium (2011); the debut of Squeeze at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2010); La Maison Rouge, Paris (2009); KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin (2006); and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2004). Her work has been exhibited in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Irresistible Force, Tate Modern, London (2007); The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2007); Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millennium (multiple venues, 2005-2006); New Work/New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005) and Greater New York 2005, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. She has participated in the 2nd Bienal del Fin del Mundo in Ushuaia, Argentina (2009), the Moscow Biennial (2007), the Herzliya Biennial , and the Busan Biennial (2006). Her work is in the collections of the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; The Diana Berezdivin Collection; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; and The Julia Stoschek Collection. In 2004 she was awarded a grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and in 2006 she became the first recipient of the Cartier Award in conjunction with the Frieze Art Fair. A monographic publication on Mika Rottenberg will be published in April 2011.
Work Info
Mary’s Cherries (2004) has been exhibited at venues including De Appel Arts Centre (2011), Tate Modern (2007), the Moscow Biennial (2007), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005), and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (Greater New York, 2005). The video features female laborers with extreme physiques dressed in bright uniforms suggestive of fast-food workers or washroom attendants who, through a process of clay kneading and fingernail clipping, transform acrylic fingernails into maraschino cherries within a compact three-story factory, implying a mixture of sexual rite, beauty treatment, and assembly-line labor. The video is shown in variable site-specific installations, which have included stucco walls, custom flooring, and an immersive sound environment.
Artist Interview
YouTube – Mika Rottenberg (Mary’s Cherries)
YouTube – Mika Rottenberg (Cheese & Mary’s Cherries & Dough)