ARTISTS
Sweethearts: Artist Couples
21 Mar, 2012 - 21 Apr, 2012
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to present Sweethearts at its new London space in Heddon Street, London W1 from 21 March to 22 April 2012. The exhibition provides a platform for a number of the world鈥檚 most important artist couples to collaborate on a piece of work.
Sweethearts will explore how couples with individual creative identities share inspiration, ideas, and even techniques; or perhaps how they subconsciously influence or are influenced by their significant other. The only parameter for the brief was that each work be jointly negotiated, conceptualised and created. The resulting work 鈥� painting, photography, sculpture, or video 鈥� examines the condition of collaborative practice, and the cross fertilisation of ideas that may have crept into each other鈥檚 practice. Artist duos who normally work together are not included.
Creativity since the advent of Modernism has most often been associated with an individual鈥檚 (usually) solitary struggle for self-expression. However, the complexities and difficulties of partnerships and collaborations provide a wider and more compelling field of analysis. How have such partnerships redefined sexual stereotypes, and how have they challenged and enriched the work of both artists? Traditional systems of intellectual and domestic support are no longer so rigidly defined. Sweethearts hopes to provide answers to some of these questions and perhaps a starting point for future practice.
Sweethearts is co-curated by gallery owner, Pippy Houldsworth, and writer, lecturer and curator, Kathy Battista, whose interest in collaborative practice stems from her PhD dissertation, Women鈥檚 Work: Feminist Artists in 1970s London, undertaken at the London Consortium. Kathy is Director of Contemporary Art, Sotheby鈥檚 Institute, New York; writes regularly for Art Monthly, and is author of Re-negotiating the Body (IB Tauris 2012) and New York, New Wave (IB Tauris 2013). A series of talks, performances, and other events, will be organised in conjunction with the exhibition.
Sweethearts will explore how couples with individual creative identities share inspiration, ideas, and even techniques; or perhaps how they subconsciously influence or are influenced by their significant other. The only parameter for the brief was that each work be jointly negotiated, conceptualised and created. The resulting work 鈥� painting, photography, sculpture, or video 鈥� examines the condition of collaborative practice, and the cross fertilisation of ideas that may have crept into each other鈥檚 practice. Artist duos who normally work together are not included.
Creativity since the advent of Modernism has most often been associated with an individual鈥檚 (usually) solitary struggle for self-expression. However, the complexities and difficulties of partnerships and collaborations provide a wider and more compelling field of analysis. How have such partnerships redefined sexual stereotypes, and how have they challenged and enriched the work of both artists? Traditional systems of intellectual and domestic support are no longer so rigidly defined. Sweethearts hopes to provide answers to some of these questions and perhaps a starting point for future practice.
Sweethearts is co-curated by gallery owner, Pippy Houldsworth, and writer, lecturer and curator, Kathy Battista, whose interest in collaborative practice stems from her PhD dissertation, Women鈥檚 Work: Feminist Artists in 1970s London, undertaken at the London Consortium. Kathy is Director of Contemporary Art, Sotheby鈥檚 Institute, New York; writes regularly for Art Monthly, and is author of Re-negotiating the Body (IB Tauris 2012) and New York, New Wave (IB Tauris 2013). A series of talks, performances, and other events, will be organised in conjunction with the exhibition.
Dan Graham + Mieko Meguro
Richard Wentworth + Jane Wentworth
Rem Koolhaas + Madelon Vriesendorp
Sam Durant + Ana Prvacki
Antony Gormley + Vicken Parsons
Kelly Barrie + Sherin Guirguis
Neo Rauch + Rosa Loy
Ian Davenport + Sue Arrowsmith
Mary Kelly + Ray Barrie
Gary Hume + Georgie Hopton
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Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to present Sweethearts at its new London space in Heddon Street, London W1 from 21 March to 22 April 2012. The exhibition provides a platform for a number of the world鈥檚 most important artist couples to collaborate on a piece of work.
Sweethearts will explore how couples with individual creative identities share inspiration, ideas, and even techniques; or perhaps how they subconsciously influence or are influenced by their significant other. The only parameter for the brief was that each work be jointly negotiated, conceptualised and created. The resulting work 鈥� painting, photography, sculpture, or video 鈥� examines the condition of collaborative practice, and the cross fertilisation of ideas that may have crept into each other鈥檚 practice. Artist duos who normally work together are not included.
Creativity since the advent of Modernism has most often been associated with an individual鈥檚 (usually) solitary struggle for self-expression. However, the complexities and difficulties of partnerships and collaborations provide a wider and more compelling field of analysis. How have such partnerships redefined sexual stereotypes, and how have they challenged and enriched the work of both artists? Traditional systems of intellectual and domestic support are no longer so rigidly defined. Sweethearts hopes to provide answers to some of these questions and perhaps a starting point for future practice.
Sweethearts is co-curated by gallery owner, Pippy Houldsworth, and writer, lecturer and curator, Kathy Battista, whose interest in collaborative practice stems from her PhD dissertation, Women鈥檚 Work: Feminist Artists in 1970s London, undertaken at the London Consortium. Kathy is Director of Contemporary Art, Sotheby鈥檚 Institute, New York; writes regularly for Art Monthly, and is author of Re-negotiating the Body (IB Tauris 2012) and New York, New Wave (IB Tauris 2013). A series of talks, performances, and other events, will be organised in conjunction with the exhibition.
Sweethearts will explore how couples with individual creative identities share inspiration, ideas, and even techniques; or perhaps how they subconsciously influence or are influenced by their significant other. The only parameter for the brief was that each work be jointly negotiated, conceptualised and created. The resulting work 鈥� painting, photography, sculpture, or video 鈥� examines the condition of collaborative practice, and the cross fertilisation of ideas that may have crept into each other鈥檚 practice. Artist duos who normally work together are not included.
Creativity since the advent of Modernism has most often been associated with an individual鈥檚 (usually) solitary struggle for self-expression. However, the complexities and difficulties of partnerships and collaborations provide a wider and more compelling field of analysis. How have such partnerships redefined sexual stereotypes, and how have they challenged and enriched the work of both artists? Traditional systems of intellectual and domestic support are no longer so rigidly defined. Sweethearts hopes to provide answers to some of these questions and perhaps a starting point for future practice.
Sweethearts is co-curated by gallery owner, Pippy Houldsworth, and writer, lecturer and curator, Kathy Battista, whose interest in collaborative practice stems from her PhD dissertation, Women鈥檚 Work: Feminist Artists in 1970s London, undertaken at the London Consortium. Kathy is Director of Contemporary Art, Sotheby鈥檚 Institute, New York; writes regularly for Art Monthly, and is author of Re-negotiating the Body (IB Tauris 2012) and New York, New Wave (IB Tauris 2013). A series of talks, performances, and other events, will be organised in conjunction with the exhibition.
Dan Graham + Mieko Meguro
Richard Wentworth + Jane Wentworth
Rem Koolhaas + Madelon Vriesendorp
Sam Durant + Ana Prvacki
Antony Gormley + Vicken Parsons
Kelly Barrie + Sherin Guirguis
Neo Rauch + Rosa Loy
Ian Davenport + Sue Arrowsmith
Mary Kelly + Ray Barrie
Gary Hume + Georgie Hopton
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