Represented by:
Luhring Ausugstine
http://www.luhringaugustine.com
BIOGRAPHY
"Pipilotti Rist was born on June 21, 1962 in Rheintal, Switzerland.
She likes red beets a lot. Her focus is video/audio installations because there is room in them for everything (painting, technology, language, music, movement, lousy, flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonition of death, sex and friendliness) - like in a compact handbag. Her opinon is: Arts task is to contribute to evolution, to encourage the mind, to guarantee a detached view of social changes, to conjure up positive energies, to create sensuousness, to reconcile reason and instinct, to research possibilities and to destroy clichés and prejudices.
Rist's works have been exhibited widely at museums and festivals throughout Europe, Japan and the US, including the biennials in Sao Paulo, Venice, Istanbul, the Caribbean and Santa Fe. In 2000 the Public Art fund NY commission Open My Glade, was shown on the screen in Times Square. Pipilotti Rist's multimedia video works such as, I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much (1986)‚ Yoghurt on Skin, Velvet on TV (1995)‚ Sip My Ocean (1996), and Remake of the Weekend (1998), blur the boundaries between visual art and popular culture and explore the unfamiliar in the everyday. Her lush, seductive images recruit the idiom of commercial advertising and music videos to create a highly individual artistic language informed by her past in a music band and as a set designer."
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QUOTES
“Like all of Ms. Rist’s work, this new show has to be taken on its own very particular terms. She is, somewhat unfashionably in a jaded time and a jaded art world, one of life’s instinctive celebrants. She loves the natural world as much as she enjoys punching its colors well into the realms of psychedelia….She provides the very best kind of evidence that in the 21st century, artists can put anything they like into their art and not necessarily end up with chaos.”
Ayers, Robert. "Pipilotti Rist: The Art World Tease." The New York Observer 27
Sept. 2010: 54. Web. 4 Oct. 2010.
“Barefoot spectators can bliss out on the doughnut-shaped blue couch amid concentric circles of plush carpeting – all meant to evoke an eye. Awash in luminous color, which is cast by the twenty-five-by-two-hundred-foot wraparound projection, the installation is fundamentally about vision, though not only in the optical sense. How visitors see good and evil, feminity and masculinity, and their own individuality vis-à-vis the collective are a asmattering of the many questions about perspective that float like lily pads and strawberries in Rist’s waters.”
Shaw, Cameron. "Pipilotti Rist: MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art." Artforum.
N.p., 20 Jan. 2009. Web. 4 Oct. 2010.
I find Pipilotti Rist's work to be incredibly fascinating and intriguing. She has the strong, confident personality that is necessary to produce work like hers. She frequently distorts colors and forms in order to make the viewer question space and position. In her installations, she turns the entire structure into her art. The walls are painted bright colors, and there are usually numerous videos going on at the same time; overlapping, juxtaposing, interweaving, supporting. I admire her confident portrayal of her videos, as many of them are of her.
I was introduced to Pipilotti Rist's work in a brief meeting with Tom. We were discussing the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of straight photographs or mixed media. He suggested that I possibly video-tape myself transforming into characters, such as, Judy. I will try it, but I can not say that I will succeed at it. There are many different avenues to take with video manipulation and contradiction, and Rist's work is an excellent reference for this.
I find Pipilotti Rist's work to be incredibly fascinating and intriguing. She has the strong, confident personality that is necessary to produce work like hers. She frequently distorts colors and forms in order to make the viewer question space and position. In her installations, she turns the entire structure into her art. The walls are painted bright colors, and there are usually numerous videos going on at the same time; overlapping, juxtaposing, interweaving, supporting. I admire her confident portrayal of her videos, as many of them are of her.
I was introduced to Pipilotti Rist's work in a brief meeting with Tom. We were discussing the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of straight photographs or mixed media. He suggested that I possibly video-tape myself transforming into characters, such as, Judy. I will try it, but I can not say that I will succeed at it. There are many different avenues to take with video manipulation and contradiction, and Rist's work is an excellent reference for this.
INTERVIEW
Elixir: The Video Organism of Pipilotti Rist - interview from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen on Vimeo.
VIDEOS AND IMAGES
the following images are taken from http://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/25/pipilotti-rist
Tyngdkraft, var min vän (Gravity be my friend), 2007
Installation view, FACT, Liverpool, 2008 (Photo: Brian Slater)
Himalaya Goldsteins Stube, (Himalaya Goldstein's Living Room), 1999
Audio/video installation
13 video projections, 11 players, orange seat, red sofa, desk lamp, high sideboard, low sideboard, chair, table and bar (all with built in players), lamps, wallpaper mounted on wood, audio system, 4 speakers
(Installation view at Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich; photo by Alexander Tröhler)
Homo sapiens sapiens, 2005
Audio-video installation
Installation view, San Stae Church, Venice (Photo: Heiner H. Schmitt Jr.)
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