Nikhil Chopra
Yog Raj Chitrakar: Eating
Sunday, February 7
5:00-7:00

 

He Said She Said presents a special one-night event by Mumbai-based artist Nikhil Chopra. Chopra’s work addresses personal, national, and cultural identity through work that brings together a wide variety of theatrical and visual traditions.

 

The event continues a series in which Chopra assumes the persona of a Victorian-era figure named Yog Raj Chitrakar, who is loosely based on the artist’s grandfather. The silent and costumed Chopra will remain in character throughout the evening, while preparing and offering an array of food and drink. Video, slides, and sound components will include a new video which brings Chopra’s character to the streets of Mumbai.

 

Nikhil Chopra lives and works in Mumbai, India. His work has been included in “Indian Highway” at the Serpentine Gallery (2008–09), “Making Worlds” at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), and “Marina Abramovic Presents,” the Manchester International Festival (2009).

 

Click here for 500 Words: Nikhil Chopra, Artforum: http://artforum.com/words/id=24110.

The exhibition Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out at the Museum of Contemporary Art brings Chopra to Chicago where he will perform Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing XI on February 9 and 10 in the MCA galleries. He will also participate in the MCA’s “Studio Myths Artists Panel” with John Neff and Amanda Ross-Ho on February 6 at 3:00.

 

 

Bob Linder’s installation remains up during the performance, and through February 13.

Bob Linder

January 16-February 13, 2010

Opening January 16, 6:00-8:00

He Said-She Said and Britton Bertran are pleased to present a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Bob Linder.  Located in the domestic setting of He Said-She Said, a quaint home in the western suburbs of Chicago, Bob Linder’s artwork plays with a variety of conceptual tactics aimed at re-contextualizing the way everyday objects inform the way we interpret living in this, today’s world. 

Bob Linder works in a variety of accessible mediums - sculpture, video, tie-dying, drawings and prints - to create environments that explore a more or less accessible punk banality. In doing so, viewers are simultaneously exposed to a sort of angst that culminates in a passive aggressive sensibility.  In choosing particular elements of our culture that deal with alternative solutions to reality, Linder’s work smother context in a way that creates new interpretations for alternate realities.

Capitalizing on He Said-She Said’s natural domesticity (namely the suburban home of proprietors Pamela Fraser, Randall Szott and their young son Oliver), the artwork develops an increased sentimentality.  Within an animated/activated space designed and processed as a place for living, Linder’s work ushers in a new reality that takes on added meaning in an environment that has it’s own everyday realties.  This results in a dynamic dramatization of both space and time.

 

Bob Linder lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Selected Exhibitions include: Small A Projects, New York, Fredereike Taylor, New York, 94 Prince Street, New York, Nicolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen, A. C. Antimuseo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, DiverseWorks, Houston, White Columns, New York, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Jack Hanley, San Francisco.

 

Britton Bertran is a Chicago-based independent curator.