11 Sep –
24 Oct 2020
Nina Canell
Nina Canell
Nina Canell, Gum Drag, 2017. Courtesy: the artist, Barbara Wien, Berlin, Mendes Wood DM and Daniel Marzona, Berlin. Photo: Stephen Faugh
Nina Canell – Dits Dahs, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, 2020
Daniel Marzona is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition with works by the Swedish artist Nina Canell.
Nina Canell’s work does not revolve around the finished art object but the suprising, movable and inexhaustible capacities of the matter it contains. Throughout the sculptural process, this potential of energy is managed, placed, distributed, lost and regained, but never fully controlled.
The exhibition title “Dits Dahs”, an oddly formed onomatopoeia, is borrowed from the two different signal durations of Morse code, called dots and dashes or dits and dahs. Canell’s new body of work takes its cue from such transfers – its gaps as well as glitches – breaking down conduits in order to reflect on material interference. As a result of both chance encounters and careful observations, this mediation between substances and stuff leaves traces: from the distance that they travel, the things they bump into, or the vibrations that pass through them. Canell incorporates real-time presence as an integral aspect of her sculptural situations – which are not an attempt to explain the world but to densify it with the impurities of process, the agency of materials and the unexpected directions in which they send our attention.
“Dits Dahs” runs in parallel to Canell’s exhibition at Barbara Wien, Berlin
Nina Canell, „Days of Inertia“, 2017. Installation view at Punta della Dogana, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2019. Courtesy the artist, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Barbara Wien, Berlin, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, and 303 Gallery, New York. Photos courtesy of Palazzo Grassi / Pinault Collection
Nina Canell, „Days of Inertia“, 2017. Installation view at Punta della Dogana, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2019. Courtesy the artist, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Barbara Wien, Berlin, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, and 303 Gallery, New York. Photos courtesy of Palazzo Grassi / Pinault Collection
Coinciding with the exhibition, Nina Canell and Robin Watkins will launch a new artists’ book: “Amber (A visual anthology of the contradictory representation of the female body in the electrical age)”. 176 pages, colour offset with a screen printed slipcase, published by Rhombus Press, New York, limited to 250 copies.
Nina Canell (* 1979 in Växjö, Sweden) lives and works in Berlin. Her recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2019), Kunstmuseum St.Gallen (2018), S.M.A.K. Ghent (2018), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2017), Center d’art contemporain d’Ivry-Le Crédac, Paris (2017), Arko ArtCentre, Seoul (2015), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2014), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (with RolfJulius, 2013). Her work was presented at the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2017), as well as biennales in Lyon (2015), Sydney (2012), Tate Liverpool (2010), Gwangju (2008) and Manifesta 9, Rovereto (2008).