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Incorporando instrumentos e estratégias das práticas do escultor, do escritor e do tipógrafo, o artista britânico Michael Dean investiga a relação entre texto e fisicalidade. Numa exploração das possibilidade tridimensionais da linguagem, Dean muitas vezes “soletra” suas palavras através de um alfabeto de formas criadas em escala humana, empregando materiais industriais e cotidianos, tais como cimento, aço, MDF, cadeados e livros tingidos com seus escritos.
Embora a transmutação da linguagem seja particularmente importante na prática de Dean, suas esculturas não são para serem lidas, mas sim para serem identificadas como um elemento da linguagem em sua própria forma e imaginadas como palavra ou ideia. Ele atribui forma física a uma linguagem pessoal, baseada em uma série de alfabetos tipográficos, que ele mesmo cria.
Abordando a natureza atemporal da intimidade humana, referências ao corpo humano são recorrentes na produção de Dean. Entre as suas formas, encontramos moldes perfurados dos punhos, membros e dedos do artista e dos seus filhos e músculos da língua, que são especialmente emblemáticos, refletindo o interesse concomitante de Dean pelo toque e pela linguagem, já que esta é a parte do corpo que, além de ativar o tato e o sabor, contribui na formação das palavras que saem de nossas bocas.
Michael Dean (n. 1977, Newcastle upon Tyne, Reino Unido) mora e trabalha em Londres.
Dean estudou na Goldsmiths, University of London e desde então conquistou reputação internacional como um dos quatro finalistas do Turner Prize de 2016. Ele participou do Skulptur Projekte, em Münster, em 2017, e foi nomeado para o prêmio de escultura Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, de 2018. Os trabalhos de Dean fazem parte de várias importantes coleções institucionais, tais como Tate, Henry Moore Foundation, Walker Art Center, S.M.A.K., Arts Council Collection, KADIST, The Hepworth Wakefield e Nasher Sculpture Center.
Sua exposições individuais mais recentes incluem: Jungle is Massive, Herald ST, Londres; Unfuckingtitled, CC Strombeek, Grimbergen (2021); Under the stairs and by the fire., Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2021); The End, Converso, Milão (2020); Tu texto aquí, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Cidade do México (2019); Having you on, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2018); Analogue LOL, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai (2018); Four Fucksakes, Herald St | Museum St, Londres (2017); Teaxths and Angeruage, Portikus, Frankfurt (2017); e Sightings: Michael Dean or Lost True Leaves, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2016).
Além disso, seus trabalhos fizeram parte de exposições coletivas institucionais, tais como
A season as a Meditation: Querying the World, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu (2022); WALK!, Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt (2022); Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou (2021); Bodies at Stake, MO.CO Montpellier Contemporary, Montpellier (2021); Scrivere Disegnando. When Language Seeks Its Other, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Genebra (2020); Transparent Things, Goldsmiths CCA, Londres (2020); Yorkshire Sculpture International, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield (2019); The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield (2018); Against The Wall?, S.M.A.K., Gent (2018); Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, Münster (2017); Turner Prize, Tate Britain, Londres (2016); Sculptures Also Die, Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Florença, (2015); Mirror City, Hayward Gallery, Londres (2014); e A History of Inspiration, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013).
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Educação
2001
Goldsmiths College, Londres, Reino Unido
Exposições Individuais
2023
Palomar, Lake Como, Italy (forthcoming)
2022
Jungle is Massive, Herald St, London, Reino Unido
Smittens For Smoticons, Goswell Road, Paris, França
Tendre-Sur-Estime, Galeria Yvon Lambert, Paris, França
2021
Garden of Delete, Barakat Contemporary, Seul, Coreia do Sul
Under the stairs and by the fire., Mendes Wood DM, Bruxelas, Bélgica
A Thestory of Luneliness for Fuck Sake, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, EUA
Secret Wing, Timisoara Art Encounters Biennale 2021, Timisoara, Romênia
Unfuckingtitled, CC Strombeek Grimbergen, Belgica
2020
The End, Converso, Milan, Itália
Kiss Emitting Die Odes, Progetto, Lecce, Itália
2019
Tu texto aquí, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Cidade do México, México
Contemporary Sculpture: Sam Anderson & Michael Dean, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, EUA
Laughing for Crying, St Carthage Hall, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Irlanda
2018
Having you on, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Reino Unido
Analogue LOL, ShanghArt Gallery, Xangai, China
2017
Four Fucksakes, Herald St | Museum St, Londres, Reino Unido
Teaxths and Angeruage, Portikus, Frankfurt, Alemanha
2016
Sightings: Michael Dean or Lost True Leaves, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, EUA Michael Dean: Sic Glyphs, South London Gallery, Londres, Reino Unido
Stamen Papers, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, Itália
2015
The Stamp of anything or that part which never bears leaves or reproductive organs, ordinary underneath and descending, and to absorb, but often upon, often from other parts, often serving other functions, though morphologically comparable, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brasil
Look at them fuck them fucking laughing, Supportico Lopez, Berlím, Alemanha
Qualities of Violence, De Appel, Amsterdam, Países Baixos Jumping Bones, Extra City, Kunsthal Antwerp, Bélgica
2014
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Alemanha
Dans l’attente d’autre chose (meanwhile, this is it), Aimable, Paris, França
Uo, with Henri Chopin, Supportico Lopez, Art Basel (Focus), Basel, Suíça
Sharing Space, with Fred Sandback, David Zwirner, Londres, Reino Unido
2013
The introduction of muscle, Arnolfini, Bristol, Reino Unido
Sounds of Fucking, Sounds of Dying, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brasil
nnnhnnh nnh nnhnnnhu nnhnhn, Pied-à-terre, San Francisco, EUA
Hah Ahahahahaha ha Hahaha, Herald St, Londres, Reino Unido
2012
Thoughts, Cubitt, Londres, Reino Unido
Government, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Reino Unido
Architecture of a mother’s arms, Supportico Lopez, Berlím, Alemanha
2011
Cope, Herald St, Londres, Reino Unido
State of being apart in space, Kunstverein, Freiburg, Alemanha
Acts of Grass, Serpentine Gallery, Londres, Reino Unido The Colour of Public, Kim?, Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Letônia
Our Daily Permanence, Fruit, Flowers and clouds: MAK, Austrian Museum of Applied Art, Viena, Áustria
About Painting, ABC, Berlím, Alemanha
2010
Our Daily Permanence, Nomas Foundation, Roma, Itália
The look of touch, Lorcan O’neil, Roma, Itália
Face, Supportico Lopez, Berlím, Alemanha
Symmetry of Intimacy, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Reino Unido
The Floor is the Object, INDEPENDENT, Nova York, EUA Tolerance, Scaramouche, Nova York, EUA
V, Ancient & Modern, Londres, Reino Unido
2009
Near to no attention to fears and without anything between the opposite of tears, works|projects, Bristol, Reino Unido
2008
Her body in the same place as my body, Alessandro De March, Milan, Itália
You can’t reflect in the distance and you don’t reflect distances towards you closing, Feurig59, Berlím, Alemanha
2007
All the trees bend this way, Guestroom, Londres, Reino Unido
Exposições Coletivas
2023
Esfíngico Frontal, Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, Brasil
2022
Walk, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Alemanha
A Season of Meditation: Querying the World, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea
Flesh Arranges Itself Differently, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Reino Unido
2021
Days of Inertia, Mendes Wood DM at d'Ouwe Kerk, Retranchement, Países Baixos
Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou, Belgica
Bodies at Stake, MO.CO Montpellier Contemporary, Montpellier, França
The Tongue Says Loneliness, Pradiauto, Madrid, ESDrawn Out, Herald St | Museum St, London, Reino Unido
Bienalsur, International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South, Argentina
2020
Yellow Opening, Mendes Wood DM at d'Ouwe Kerk, Retranchement, Países Baixos
EnormousBalls, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgica
Via dell’Inferno, Herald St at Galleria Spazia, Bologna, Itália
Scrivere Disegnando/When Language Seeks Its Other, CAC, Genebra Suíça
Transparant Things, Goldsmiths CCA, Londres, Reino Unido
Infinite Sculpture, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisboa, Portugal
2019
Summer Exhibition 2019, Royal Academy of Art, London, Reino Unido
Infinite Sculpture, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, França
Work-Book-Work, ICA Milano, Milan, Itália
Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Alemanha
2018
Scripts, Bielefder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Alemanha
Yorkshire Sculpture International, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, Reino Unido
Give Up The Ghost, Baltic Triennial 13, Talinn Art Hall, Estônia
Andrew Kreps Gallery, Nova York, EUA
Against The Wall?, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Bélgica
Raymond, Manifesta 12, Grand Hotel et Des Palmes, Palermo, Itália
Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, Reino Unido
Alexandra Bircken, Josh Brand, Matthew Darbyshire, Michael Dean, Cary Kwok, Amalia Pica, Nicole Wermers, Herald Street/Museum Street, Londres, Reino Unido
2017
Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, Münster, Alemanha
More Than Just Words [On the Poetic], Kunsthalle Wien, Viena, Áustria
Neither. , Mendes Wood DM, Bruxelas, Bélgica
Zeno X Gallery, Antuérpia, Bélgica
50th Anniversary of Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats by Pierre Guyotat, Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris,
Markers, David Zwirner, Londres, Reino Unido
2016
Tudo Joia, Bergamim & Gomide, São Paulo, Brasil Part Tibi, Roma, Nihil, Nomas Foundation, Roma, Itália
Turner Prize, Tate Britain, Londres, Reino Unido
Pierre Guyotat: La matière de nos oeuvre, Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris, França Pure Fiction, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, França Concrete Islands, Kayne Griffin Corcorran, Los Angeles, EUA
House of Commons, Portikus, Frankfurt, Alemanha
2015
The Registry of Promise: The Promise of Literature, Soothsaying and Speaking in Tongues, De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal, Middelburg, Países Baixos
Beautiful Monsters, Gladstone Gallery, Nova York, EUA
Qwaypurlake, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, Reino Unido
Albert The Kid Is Ghosting, David Roberts Art Foundation, Londres, Reino Unido
Til the stars turn cold, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, Reino Unido
Speaking Parts, Raven Row, Londres, Reino Unido
Sculptures Also Die, Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Florença Itália
Safe, Home, Manchester, Reino Unido
Markus Amm | Alexandra Bircken | Michael Dean, Herald St – Golden Sq, Londres, Reino Unido
2014
The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Noruega
The Library Vaccine, Artist Space, Nova York, EUA
The Word Today Serves No One Except To Say To The Grocer Give Me A Pound Of Lentils, Supportico Lopez, Berlím, Alemanha
Mirror City, Hayward Gallery London, Londres, Reino Unido
Itself Not So, Lisa Cooley, Nova York, EUA
Essential Loneliness, Taylor Macklin, Zurique, Suíça
The Mystic Gardener, Bonnefanten Hedge House, Maastricht, Países Baixos
Till the stars turn cold, S1, Sheffield, Reino Unido
Le musée d’une nuit (script for leaving traces), Propos d’Europe 13, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, França
Manners of Matter, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburgo, Áustria
Let Us Mix, Chance & Choice - The Salon, Kim?, Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Letônia
A Thousand Doors, Gennadius Library, Atenas, Grécia
Everything is About to Happen (An ongoing archive of artists’ books), Corvi-Mora and Grengrassi, Londres, Reino Unido
Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, Reino Unido
To continue. Notes towards A Sculpture Cycle, Nomas Foundation, Roma, Itália
Bard girls can fly, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, EUA
Mediating Landscape, Sala Murat, Bari, Itália
2013
Sister Sara's Theme, Prism, Los Angeles, EUA
A History of Inspiration, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, França
Taktilitet, Nils Staerk, Copenhague, Dinamarca
The Camera's Blind Spot, MAN Museum, Sardinia, Itália
Testing ground: Disappearing into one, Zabludowicz Collection, Londres, Reino Unido
2012
Pale Ontology, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, EUA
From Stavanger with love, Galleri Opdahl, Stravanger, Noruega
Accidentally on Purpose, QUAD, Derby, Reino Unido
Soundworks, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres, Reino Unido
A Reader of Materials and a Writer of Forms, MOT International, Bruxelas, Bélgica
The Dan Cox Library for the Unfinished Concept of Thingly Time, A project by Andy Holden, Cubitt, Londres Reino Unido
2011
Beyond the Fragile Geometry of Sculpture, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Países Baixos
We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, Londres, Reino Unido
Two Figures in Dense Violet Night, with Becky Beasley, Lido Projects, St Leonards-on Sea, Reino Unido
A Fire in the Masters House is Set, Chapter, Cardiff, Reino Unido
Hieroglyphos, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antuérpia, Bélgica
Friendship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield Gallery, Londres, Reino Unido
Bold Tendencies, Londres, Reino Unido
Young London, V22, London, Londres, Reino Unido
Nothing Personal, Marcelle Alix, Paris, França
Part of the Process 4, Zero, Milan, Itália
No colour in your cheeks unless the wind lashes your face, IOP, Reino Unido e França
Mind Games, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, EUA
A Dying Artist, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres, Reino Unido
2010
The Daily Exhaustion: The Exhibition of Artist Publications, The Future, Berlím, Alemanha
Volume One: Props, Events and Encounters, The Hub, Atenas, Grécia
The Concrete Show, Galleria Franco Noero, Turim, Itália
Undone: Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Reino Unido
Our Blindsides (with Becky Beasley), Laura Bartlett Gallery, Londres, Reino Unido
V, (with Andrew Lord), Ancient and Modern, Londres, Reino Unido
Syndrome, Le Magazin, Grenoble, França
Zero Budget Biennial, Rokeby, Londres, Reino Unido
Fade into you, Herald St, Londres, Reino Unido
Les Sculptures Meurent Aussi, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, França
Chasm, The Dictionary of Received Ideas, Londres, Reino Unido
2009
Fallen, Jan Mol, Londres, Reino Unido
The young On Paper, Wendt and Friedmann Galerie, Berlím, Alemanha
Punctuation Marks: text and language in modern British sculpture, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds Reino Unido
The young people visiting our ruins see nothing but a style, GAM Museum of Modern Art, Turim, Itália
A Corpes & a Textes, La Galerie, Noisy-Le-Sec, Paris, França
Sculpture Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Reino Unido
Black Sun, Souterrain, Berlím, Alemanha
2008
Rehearsal Room, FormContent, Londres, Reino Unido
Intervention/Decoration, Foreground Projects, Frome, Reino Unido
Italia Italie Italien Italy Wlochy, ARCOS Museum of Contemporary Art Sannio, Benevento, Itália
The mythology of everyday matters, Bilton Centre for Contemporary Art, Red Deer, Canadá
Your ramp my slide, FormContent, Londres, Reino Unido
2007
Yours, T293, Nápoles, Itália
This is the time (and this is the record of the time), E-Static, Turim, Itália
Coleções Públicas
Arts Council Collection
Henry Moore Foundation
KADIST Foundation
Nasher Sculpture Center
Tate Modern
The Hepworth Wakefield
Walker Art Centre
S.M.A.K.
Prêmios
2018
Hepworth Prize for Sculpture (nomeado)
2016
Turner Prize (nomeado)
2014
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts
Exposições
Curada por Fernanda Brenner
Publicações
Now Leaves
Michael Dean 2015
Michael Dean: Selected Writings
Michael Dean 2012
An Introduction to the Principles of Symmetrical Intimacy Vol. I / Michael Dean And The Authors
Michael Dean 2011
