David Altmejd

Installation view:

DAVID ALTMEJD
Flux
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
October 10, 2014 — February 1, 2015

Installation view:

DAVID ALTMEJD
Flux
MUDAM Luxembourg
December 13, 2014 - May 31, 2015

Detail of:


Le guide
2010
Plexiglas, chain, metal wire, thread, acrylic paint , epoxy clay, acrylic gel
80 x 57 x 105 inches
(203.2 x 144.8 x 266.7 cm)
ARG# AD2010-002

Le souffle et la voie
2010
Plexiglas, chain, metal wire, thread, acrylic paint , epoxy clay, acrylic gel
97 x 102 x 156 inches
(246.4 x 259.1 x 396.2 cm)
ARG# AD2010-003

The University 1
2004
Mirrors, wood
66 x 71 x 106 inches
ARG#AD2004-012


© David Altmejd
Photo by Oren Slor

 

Untitled 8 (Bodybuilders)
2013
Plaster, burlap, wood, polystyrene, expandable foam, latex paint
Overall dimensions: 110 x 36 x 36 inches (279.4 x 91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Artwork: 74 x 24 1/2 x 23 inches (188 x 62.2 x 58.4 cm)
Plinth: 36 x 36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 x 91.4 cm)
ARG# AD2013-019

Untitled
2005
plexiglas, gold chains, glue
Base: 36 x 64 x 33 inches
Top: 33 x 61 x 29 inches
ARG#AD2005-007


© David Altmejd
Photo by Oren Slor

Untitled
2011
Polystyrene, expandable foam, epoxy clay, metal wire, resin, spray paint, glass eyes
43 x 10 x 11 inches
(109.2 x 25.4 x 27.9 cm)
ARG# AD2011-051

Untitled
2009
Plexiglas, chain, thread, beads, acrylic paint
89 1/2 x 66 x 123 1/2 inches
(227.3 x 167.6 x 313.7 cm)
ARG# AD2009-008


Installation view:


Between Spaces
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
New York
October 25- 2009 - April 5, 2010

Installation view:


The Brant Foundation Art Study Center
Greenwich, CT
November, 2011 – March, 2012

The Brant Foundation exhibition page

 

Installation view:


Xavier Hufkens
Brussels, Belgium
February 14 – March 20, 2013


Photo by Kurt Deruyter

Man 1
2007
Fiberglass, epoxy clay, wood, plaster, feathers, quartz, taxidermy parakeet, pants, jacket, cotton shirt, tie, belt, acrylic paint, latex paint, glass eyes
76 x 24 x 24 inches (193 x 61 x 61 cm)
Plinth: 8 x 30 x 30 inches (20.3 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm)
ARG# AD2007-004

Detail of:


The Vessel
2011
Plexiglas, chain, plaster, wood, thread, wire, acrylic paint, epoxy resin, epoxy clay, acrylic gel, granular medium, quartz, pyrite, assorted minerals, adhesive, wire, pins, needles
102 1/2 x 244 x 86 1/2 inches
(260.4 x 619.8 x 219.7 cm)
ARG# AD2011-002

 

The Flux and The Puddle
2014
Plexiglas, quartz, polystyrene, polyurethane foam, epoxy clay, epoxy gel, resin, synthetic hair, clothing, leather shoes, thread, mirror, plaster, acrylic paint, latex paint, metal wire, glass eyes, sequin, ceramic, synthetic flowers, synthetic branches, glue, gold, feathers, steel, coconuts, aqua resin, burlap, lighting system including fluorescent lights, Sharpie ink, wood
129 x 252 x 281 inches
(327.7 x 640.1 x 713.7 cm)
ARG# AD2014-001

Detail of:

 

The Flux and The Puddle
2014
Plexiglas, quartz, polystyrene, polyurethane foam, epoxy clay, epoxy gel, resin, synthetic hair, clothing, leather shoes, thread, mirror, plaster, acrylic paint, latex paint, metal wire, glass eyes, sequin, ceramic, synthetic flowers, synthetic branches, glue, gold, feathers, steel, coconuts, aqua resin, burlap, lighting system including fluorescent lights, Sharpie ink, wood
129 x 252 x 281 inches
(327.7 x 640.1 x 713.7 cm)
ARG# AD2014-001

Untitled
2011
Epoxy clay, plaster, glass eye, synthetic hair, acrylic paint, resin, assorted minerals including quartz, malachite, fabric, metal wire
12 1/2 x 10 x 13 inches
(31.8 x 25.4 x 33 cm)
ARG# AD2011-015

Untitled 1 (Relatives)
2013
Epoxy clay, wood, steel, latex paint, metal wire, polystyrene, expandable foam
73 3/4 x 38 x 26 inches
(187.3 x 96.5 x 66 cm)
ARG# AD2013-040

Videos

David Altmejd collaborates with Yeasayer on their album "Amen & Goodbye"

David Altmejd: Heads on art21

David Altmejd: Assistants on art21

Biography

David Altmejd (b. 1974 Montréal, Canada) lives and works in New York.

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Exhibitions

Past

David Altmejd

Flux
June 20 – September 13, 2015
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada

David Altmejd's first French retrospective, FLUX, travels to Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada 

David Altmejd

Flux
October 10, 2014 – February 1, 2015
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

David Altmejd

Juices
February 1 – March 8, 2014
Main Gallery

Opening reception: January 31, 6-8 pm

David Altmejd, Liz Deschenes, Erik Wysocan

May 19 – June 30, 2012
Gallery 2

The Dining Room Show

David Altmejd, Nigel Cooke, Francis Upritchard
and an outdoor sculpture project by Sean Landers
July 21 – 23, 2006
Amagansett, Long Island

Publications

David Altmejd

Text by Robert Hobbs; additional contributions by Trinie Dalton, Christopher Glazek, and Kevin McGarry

David Altmejd is known for his intricate and highly worked room-size installations and sculptures. Seamlessly moving between a variety of aesthetic modes – from an almost ascetic minimalism in works employing plaster and mirror to works teeming with accumulations of crystals, gold chain, thread, taxidermied birds and animals, among other objects -- Altmejd’s work offers beautifully wrought meditations on the cycles of life and death, interiority and exteriority, sexuality, and spirituality. In the most comprehensive consideration of the artist’s work to date, the volume includes four essays by a range of writers, who by providing different entry points to Altmejd’s art, animate and engage the rich and diverse ideas that characterize his important practice.  

The full range of Altmejd’s nearly 20 years of work is featured in the book, from his earliest work--where the vast aesthetic vocabulary he has evolved over the years took shape--to his most recent series. Organized roughly chronologically, with an extensive art historical essay by Robert Hobbs as well as pithy contributions from the other esteemed writers forming the connective tissue between expansive sections of color plates, one can trace the many through-lines that the artist has developed and reworked during his career. The book affords a close and intimate view of the inspired and wholly unique work that brought him to prominence in the early 2000s, while also providing a sense of the breadth and scope of his polymath-like creativity and inventiveness in work less well-known or chronicled.

Edited by Isabel Venero
Format: Hardcover
9.5 x 11.75 inches / 384 pages
Language: English
Publisher: Damiani
2014


CONTRIBUTORS

Trinie Dalton is a writer of fiction and short stories, as well as being an accomplished art writer. Wide Eyed (Akashic), Sweet Tomb (Madras Press), and A Unicorn Is Born (Abrams) are works of fiction. Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is (McSweeney’s) and Mythtym (Picturebox) are compilations of art writing. She has written articles for venues such as Bookforum, Paper, Purple, Arthur, The Believer, and Bomb. She teaches book/arts and writing at Pratt and NYU, and is on the MFA Fiction faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Christopher Glazek is a writer living in Los Angeles and the founder of the Yale AIDS Memorial Project. His essays focus on a range of social and cultural issues. Recent work has attended to complex problems such as the incarceration crisis, HIV/AIDS, credentialism, and student debt, in addition to critical writing devoted to art, film, literature, and music. His work has appeared in Artforum, the literary journal N+1, New York Magazine, The London Review of Books, and NewYorker.com, among other publications.

Robert Hobbs is an art historian at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he has held Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair since 1991. He has also been a visiting professor at Yale University since 2004. Recognized as a scholar, teacher, and curator, Hobbs specializes in both late modern and post-modern art. He has published widely and has curated dozens of exhibitions at important institutions in the U.S. and abroad. His publications include monographs on Milton Avery, Alice Aycock, Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Mark Lombardi, Robert Smithson, and Kara Walker, and he has also written on Hernan Bas, Keith Haring, Jonathan Lasker, Mark Lindquist, Malcolm Morley, Neo Rauch, Andres Serrano, Yinka Shonibare, James Siena, Meredyth Sparks, and John Wesley.

Kevin McGarry is a writer, editor, and curator. He writes the contemporary art column “Out There” for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, is the art editor for V Magazine, and reviews exhibitions for Art Agenda and Artforum.com. He was the editor of the first monograph on Ryan Trecartin (Skira Rizzoli) and contributed to the major monograph on Yayoi Kusama published in 2012 (Rizzoli). He is a co-programmer of Migrating Forms, an annual festival of artists’ film and video at Anthology Film Archives, and in 2013, was the film curator for MoMA PS 1’s “Expo 1.”

David Altmejd

text by Oscar Van den Boogaard

Published by Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, on the occassion of David Altmejd's 2013 exhibtion at the gallery.

ISBN 978-94-91245-05-3

David Altmejd: The Index

by Louise Déry

2007, 72 p., hardcover
Col. ill., 22 x 28,5 cm
© David Altmejd, Louise Déry and Galerie de l’UQAM
ISBN 978-2-920325-18-0

This publication accompanies the exhibition David Altmejd: The Index, organized by the Galerie de l’UQAM and presented in the Canadian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale. The catalogue includes an essay by Louise Déry about The Index, and The Giant 2. Its title refers to the principle of collection and of the diversity of species, to their classification, their organization into a dynamic avifauna, where an internal equilibrium ensures the perpetuity of the system, which somehow suggests a symbolic architectural modelling of life. This publication won an award in the 2008 Grafika competition.

Français / English / Italiano

David Altmejd

by Louise Déry

2006, 112 p., hardcover
Col. ill., 21,5 x 27 cm
© David Altmejd, Louise Déry and Galerie de l’UQAM
ISBN 2-920325-95-7
ISBN 978-2-920325-95-1

This publication is the first monograph dedicated to David Altmejd. It provides extensive visual documentation, particularly on the work The University 2, exhibited at Andrea Rosen Gallery in 2004 and acquired by the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The essay by Louise Déry surveys ten years of work and examines the major aspects of the artist’s research and of his oeuvre. This book was published to coincide with the travelling exhibition David Altmejd, organized by the Galerie de l’UQAM in 2007 and presented in Montreal (Galerie de l’UQAM), Oakville (Oakville Galleries) and Calgary (Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design).

Français / English

Press

News

David Altmejd and Friedrich Kunath at the Kunsthal KAdE

September 22, 2016

The Kunsthal KAdE is presenting an exhibition of work by David Altmejd and Friedrich Kunath. Entitled 'Self-Fiction' and curated by Robbert Roos, the exhibition is on view from September 24, 2016 - January 1, 2017.  Please visit the museum website for more information.

Kunsthal KAdE
Eemplein 77
3812 EA Amersfoort (Eemhuis)
Netherlands

David Altmejd at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec

June 14, 2016

David Altmejd's seminal The Flux and the Puddle will be on long-term view from June 24, 2016 at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
National Battlefields Park
Québec City QC G1R 5H3
Canada 

David Altmejd collaborates with Yeasayer

April 12, 2016

A behind-the-scenes look into David Altmejd's collaboration with Yeasayer on their album Amen & Goodbye.

David Altmejd at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Belgium

March 18, 2016

David Altmejd's The Giants will be on view from March 18 - August 21, 2016 at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. 

For more information on the exhibition, please click here.

Artforum.com Picks: David Altmejd

February 24, 2014

Anne Prentnieks reviews David Altmejd's Andrea Rosen Gallery exhibition Juices, now on view through March 8.

Robert Hobbs; additional contributions by Trinie Dalton, Christopher Glazek, and Kevin McGarry
Published by Damiani
9.5 x 11.75 inches, 384 pages
To be released March 2014

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