303 gallery karen kilimnik biography
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Drawing correspondences between romantic tradition and consumer culture, Karen Kilimnik's work brings a haunting and contrary sense of beauty to contemporary art. The world of the ballet and childhood, romantic painting and pop music, icons of film and fashion, signs of witchcraft, time-travel, and murder comprise an imagery that has been culled from the fairytale and recent past into an unsettling present. In a world where the forces of nature, youth, and terror have taken awesome hold, Kilimnik's art rematerializes a quest for the romantic sublime.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Carnegie International, 57th edition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 “Zeitgeist”, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
2016 Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, France, presented by Le Consortium, Dijon
2014 “Psyche” at Opera National de Paris / Opera Garnier, Paris, France
2013 Academie Conti, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2012 The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
2010 “Intervention”, Osterreichischle Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
2007 "Karen Kilimnik", Institute of
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Sleeping Beauty and friends, 2008
KAREN KILIMNIK
The Brant Foundation is pleased to present a major exhibition of works by Karen Kilimnik opening on Sunday, May 6, 2012. The exhibition will include installation, paintings, photographs and drawings from the years 1982 – 2012. These works reference subjects as seemingly disparate as witchcraft, Napoleon, World War II, set design, the solar system, magic and equestrian themes. The exhibition continues through September 2012.
This presentation of Kilimnik’s work permits a rigorous consideration of her practice through a combinative display of new work, historical retrospective and re-interpretation afforded by the Brant Foundation Art Study Center’s dynamic space and country idyll. The artist seizes the opportunity to reanimate some of her most iconic works by exhibiting them in newly realized forms, resulting in an application of her uniquely refracted perspective to the exhibition space and the works on display.
In the upper gallery, Kilimnik will present a new installation, Fountain of Youth, which consists of six feet of boxwood hedges, grass, ivy and a stone garden fountain and glass perfume bottles. The lower gallery includes a chinoiserie themed installation where early drawings will hang with custom wallpaper, f
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