Portfolio Presentation and Talk
Thursday 2nd February, 2017
8pm
The talk will be in english
Proyecto AMIL, Lima
Proyecto AMIL is delighted to invite you to a portfolio presentation and talk by Esther Kläs & Philip Larratt-Smith. Kläs, who is the new artist-in-residence at Proyecto AMIL for summer 2017, has developed a distinct visual language, combining post-war abstraction and minimalism with a physical sense of the body and its subjectivity. Her three-month residency will begin at the end of January when she makes an exploratory trip to the Peruvian Amazon accompanied by the independent curator and writer Philip Larratt-Smith. Their experience together will be the subject of a publication to be released in the second half of the year.
In the context of the presentation, Kläs and Larratt-Smith will interview each other to give us an overview about their most recent projects and plans for the residency.
Esther Kläs (Mainz, 1981) lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Recent exhibitions include Whatness, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (2015); Girare Con Te, Marino Marini Museum, Florence; Italy (2014), Esther Kläs: Better Energy, MoMA PS1, NY (2012). Her work has also been included in a number of group exhibitions including Drawing Redefined, de Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2015); Playing by Heart, KOLUMBA, Cologne, Germany (2014), KölnSkulptur #7, Stiftung Skulpturenpark Cologne, Germany and the 6th Prague Biennale (2013).
Philip Larratt-Smith (Toronto, 1979) is writer and curator based in New York. Recent curatorial projects include: Hiroshi Sugimoto / Black Box (2016), Fundación MAPFRE; Ydessa Hendeles From her wooden sleep… (2015), ICA London; Cy Twombly Paradise (2014), co-curated with Julie Sylvester, Museo Jumex and Ca’ Pesaro; Louise Bourgeois. Petite Maman (2013), Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Yayoi Kusama / Infinite Obsession (2013-2015), co-curated with Frances Morris, MALBA, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil and Instituto Tomie Ohtake, and Museo Tamayo; Bruce Nauman / mindfuck (2013), Hauser & Wirth London; Tracey Emin / How It Feels (2012), MALBA; Bye Bye American Pie (2012), MALBA; Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious (2012), Qatar Museums Authority, Doha; Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed (2011-12), Fundación PROA, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, and Freud Museum London; Larry Clark (2011), Fototeca de Cuba, Havana; Andy Warhol, Mr. America (2009-2010), Banco de la República, MALBA, and Pinacoteca de São Paulo; and Robert Mapplethorpe. Sacred and Profane at the Fototeca de Cuba, 2006. Larratt-Smith has written extensively on postwar and contemporary art, including such artists as Roni Horn, Guillermo Kuitca, Esther Kläs, Philip Guston, and Milton Resnick. He is currently preparing the complete psychoanalytic writings of Louise Bourgeois for publication.
