Remy Jungerman in Conversation today (August 4, 2022) at the Katonah Museum of Art from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. The artist will talk about his solo show “Higher Ground”. “Higher Ground” is on view at the Katonah Museum of Art through September 24, 2022.
Remy Jungerman: The High Ground will focus on recent works by Surinamese-born Dutch artist Remy Jungerman (b. 1959), who lives and works in Amsterdam and New York. The exhibition includes a selection from Jungerman’s three main bodies of work: three-dimensional suspended or free-standing assemblages (which the artist calls “horizontal” and “vertical”), stacked “cubes” and “fabric-covered panels” . ” Through these self-imposed formal constraints, as well as a limited vocabulary of carefully selected materials, Jungerman explores the connections between pattern and symbol in Surinamese chestnut culture and European “modernism.”
For example, “Horizontals” consists of slates of different lengths, widths and colors, stacked on top of each other and covered with small panels coated with kaolin, a white clay from the artist’s native Suriname. Both abstracted altarpieces and compositions reminiscent of the orthogonal aesthetic of Dutch De Stijl, these constructions, like all of Jungerman’s carefully considered works, draw different visual and cultural languages into conversation with each other. Through these works, Jungerman also presents a challenge to art historical hierarchies, the age-old denigration of the canon of non-Western art.
Jungerman represented the Netherlands at the 2019 Venice Biennale with Iris Kensmil. In 2017 he was nominated for the Black Achievement Award in the Netherlands. In 2008 he received the Fritschy Culture Award from Museum het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands. Jungerman is the subject of a career survey at the Stedelijk Museum, Remy Jungerman: Behind the forest (November 20, 2021 – April 10, 2022). The artist is represented by Fridman Gallery in New York, which organized Brilliant Corners, Jungerman’s first solo exhibition in the United States (April 7 – May 15, 2021). Where the River Runs, a comprehensive monograph of Jungerman’s work, was published by Jap Sam Books in 2020.
Jungerman’s Exhibition Higher ground will be located in the spacious Atrium of the KPA, as well as in the Museum’s project gallery, a space for innovative contemporary installations. His work will also be put into dialogue with the main summer exhibition of the AKPM, Interrupted Tradition. Comprised of twenty-three artworks and installations in a wide variety of media, from metalwork and ceramics to carpets and mosaics, Tradition Interrupted explores the work of international artists who fuse traditional craft with contemporary ideas and processes. Jungerman’s assemblages and sculptures will therefore be displayed side by side with artworks by some of the most important international artists working today, including Anila Quayyum Agha, Dinh Q. Lê and Faig Ahmed.
Remy Jungerman (1959) lives and works in Amsterdam. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts and Cultural Studies in Paramaribo, Suriname, before moving to Amsterdam, where he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
In his work, Jungerman explores the intersection of pattern and symbol in Surinamese maroon culture, the larger African diaspora, and 20th-century modernism. Placing fragments of maroon textiles and other materials found in the African diaspora – the kaolin clay used in some religious traditions or the nails featured in Nkisi Nkondi’s sculpture of power – in direct contact with materials and images drawn from traditions more ” established” of art, Jungerman presents. a peripheral vision that enriches our view of art history.
In 2022, Jungerman received the AH Heineken Prize for Art, the largest visual art award in the Netherlands.
From 20 November 2021 – 10 April 2022 he was the subject of a career survey show at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam entitled Remy Jungerman: Behind the forest. In 2019 he represented the Netherlands at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. In 2017 he was nominated for the Black Achievement Award in the Netherlands. In 2008 he received the Fritschy Culture Award from Museum het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands.
Jungerman is co-founder and curator of the Wakaman Project, drawing the Lines – the connecting dots. Wakaman, meaning “standing man”, was born out of a desire to examine the position of visual artists of Surinamese origin and raise their profile(s) on the international stage. [. . .]
[Photography Onwhitewall – Artwork Documentation. The artist made a series of small panels 4.7 X 4.7 in. (12 x 12 cm) titled Pimba SAMBURA “that allow viewer to focus more closely on the materials and details of texture.”]
