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2019.06.07 21:52

(360) 2018 휴고보스상 수상작가 시몬 리(Simone Leigh)@구겐하임 뮤지엄(4/19-10/27)

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The Hugo Boss Prize 2018

Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat

April 19-October 27, 2019

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Simone Leigh, Jug, 2019, Bronze, 214.6 x 126 x 123.8 cm

시몬 리(Simone Leigh)는 올해 최고의 해를 맞았다. 2018 구겐하임 뮤지엄 휴고 보스(Hugo Boss)상 수상작가 개인전 'Loophole of Retreat'(4/19-10/27)을 열고 있으며, 하이라인(High Line) 공원에서 대형 조각 브릭 하우스(Brick House, 6월-9월)가 전시된다. 그리고, 51세에 휘트니 비엔날레에 초대됐다.

1968년 시카고에서 자마이카 출신 부모 사이에서 태어난 시몬 리는 얼햄대(인디애나주 리치몬드)에서 철학을 전공했다. 로드아일랜드디자인스쿨(RISD) 도예과에서 가르쳐왔다. 2016년 뉴욕 뉴뮤지엄의 개인전 '대기실(The Waiting Room)'의 한 프로그램으로 "Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter" 그룹을 조성했다.

Simone Leigh, Sentinel, 2019, Bronze and raffia, 198.1 x 166.4 x 102.9 cm

Simone Leigh, Panoptica, 2019, Terracotta pipe and chimney, steel, and raffia, 317.5 x 304.8 cm

Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat (detail), 2019, Concrete blocks and sound, 6 min. 44 sec.

Simone Leigh

Simone Leigh (b. 1967, Chicago) lives and works in Brooklyn. Solo presentations of her work have been hosted at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Marcus Garvey Park, New York (organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; both 2016?17); New Museum, New York (2016); Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Stuyvesant Mansion, Brooklyn (organized by Creative Time, New York; both 2014); and The Kitchen, New York (2012). In 2018 Simone Leigh was selected to create the High Line Plinth’s inaugural commission, which will be on view later this year. The artist’s work will be featured in the upcoming Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and has previously been including presentations such as the Berlin Biennial (2018); Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York (2017?18); Unconventional Clay: Engaged in Change, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (2016); Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2015?16); Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (traveled to Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco [2012?15]); The Dakar Biennial (2014); Whitney Biennial (2012); 30 Seconds Off an Inch, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009?10); The Future as Disruption, The Kitchen, New York; and Intersections: Defensive Mechanisms, Abrons Art Center, New York (both 2008). Her work has been recognized with awards and honors from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York (2018); Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2017); A Blade of Grass, New York (2016); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York (both 2016); Creative Capital, New York (2012); and the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2011).

Hugo Boss Prize History

Since its inception in 1996, the Hugo Boss Prize has been awarded to twelve innovative and influential contemporary artists: Matthew Barney (1996), Douglas Gordon (1998), Marjetica Potr? (2000), Pierre Huyghe (2002), Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004), Tacita Dean (2006), Emily Jacir (2008), Hans-Peter Feldmann (2010), Danh Vo (2012), Paul Chan (2014), Anicka Yi (2016), and Simone Leigh (2018). The related exhibitions have constituted some of the most compelling presentations in the museum’s history. Previous finalists include Laurie Anderson, Janine Antoni, Cai Guo-Qiang, Stan Douglas, and Yasumasa Morimura in 1996; Huang Yong Ping, William Kentridge, Lee Bul, Pipilotti Rist, and Lorna Simpson in 1998; Vito Acconci, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Tom Friedman, Barry Le Va, and Tunga in 2000; Francis Alys, Olafur Eliasson, Hachiya Kazuhiko, Koo Jeong-a, and Anri Sala in 2002; Franz Ackermann, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij, Rivane Neuenschwander, Simon Starling, and Yang Fudong in 2004; Allora & Calzadilla, John Bock, Damian Ortega, Aida Ruilova, and Tino Sehgal in 2006; Christoph Buchel, Patty Chang, Sam Durant, Joachim Koester, and Roman Signer in 2008; Cao Fei, Roman Ondak, Walid Raad, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul in 2010; Trisha Donnelly, Rashid Johnson, Qiu Zhijie, Monika Sosnowska, and Tris Vonna-Michell in 2012; Sheela Gowda, Camille Henrot, Hassan Khan, and Charline von Heyl in 2014; Tania Bruguera, Mark Leckey, Ralph Lemon, Laura Owens, and Wael Shawky in 2016, and Bouchra Khalili, Teresa Margolles, Emeka Ogboh, Frances Stark, and Wu Tsang in 2018.