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An exhibition of the work of artist Danh Vo (b. 1975, Bà
Rịa,
Vietnam), winner of the Hugo Boss Prize 2012, will be on view at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March 15–May 27, 2013. Vo, whose
work illuminates the entwined strands of private experience and
collective history that shape our sense of self, is the ninth artist to
win the prestigious biennial award, established in 1996 by HUGO BOSS and
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Emerging
from a process of research, chance encounters, and delicate personal
negotiations, Vo’s installations unearth the latent connotations and
memories embedded in familiar forms. The title of his Guggenheim
exhibition, I M U U R 2,
is derived from a formulation used by the artist Martin Wong
(1946–1999) on his business cards and stamps. Vo has long been
fascinated by the life and work of Wong, a visionary painter and beloved
figure of New York’s downtown art scene of the 1980s and ’90s. After
acquiring one of Wong’s works, he struck up a correspondence with the
artist’s mother, Florence Wong Fie, and eventually visited her home in
San Francisco. There, he discovered a remarkable collection of objects
ranging from curios and tourist souvenirs to rare antique ceramics and
scrolls of calligraphy, interspersed with numerous examples of Wong’s
paintings and works on paper. An
obsessive collector with an astute eye for overlooked finds, Wong had
collaborated with his mother since childhood to assemble an evolving
constellation of artifacts—a project that culminated during the last
five years of his life, when he returned to his family home to undergo
treatment for an AIDS-related illness. Giving equal weight to the
rarified and the disposable, the collection expresses Wong’s omnivorous
desire to absorb and understand his cultural environment. Much of the
collection focuses on exuberant Americana and sentimental keepsakes, but
Wong also examined the problematic aspects of American popular history,
creating clusters of objects that depict racist caricatures. At the
time of his death in 1999, the collection had grown to cover almost
every surface in the house, where it has been carefully preserved by
Florence Wong Fie ever since. In this installation, Vo has configured a
selection of objects drawn from the Wong collection. Elucidating the
affinities between the two artists, the gesture merges their individual
processes through a creative exchange that transcends historical
circumstances and challenges the traditional notion of the stable,
authored artwork.
In
November 2012, a jury selected Vo from a group of six short-listed
artists, including Trisha Donnelly, Rashid Johnson, Qiu Zhijie, Monika
Sosnowska, and Tris Vonna-Michell. The award is given to an artist whose
work represents a significant development in contemporary art and sets
no restrictions in terms of age, gender, race, nationality, or medium.
The 2012 jury was chaired by Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Jennifer
and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and
included Magali Arriola, Curator, Colección Jumex, Ecatepec de Morelos,
Mexico; Suzanne Cotter, Director, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art,
Porto, Portugal, and former Curator, Abu Dhabi Project, Solomon R.
Guggenheim Foundation; Kate Fowle, Executive Director, Independent
Curators International, New York; Nat Trotman, Associate Curator,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Theodora Vischer, Senior Curator at
Large, Fondation Beyeler, Basel. In the official award statement, the
jury remarked: "We have chosen to award the Hugo Boss Prize 2012 to Danh
Vo in recognition of the vivid and influential impact he has made on
the currents of contemporary art making. Vo's assured and subtle work
expresses a number of urgent concerns related to cultural identity,
politics, and history, evoking these themes through shifting, poetic
forms that traverse time and geography.”
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