Encrypted in compressions - Queens and Jacks, Olympians, Rabbits, Dragons, Disciples and Principles - on the edge of replication, syntactical yet absurdist, invalidating and reformatting, Reading Writing Arithmetic, Darren Bader’s first solo exhibition in Athens opened at Radio Athènes on the 16th September 2015.
Round Room, a collection of 15 poems by Darren Bader translated from English to Ancient Greek, Modern Greek and back into English, has been published on the occasion of the exhibition. The necessary precondition to revel in the cascades of language and dislocations of meaning more than once is bilinguality.
Darren Bader (b.1978, Bridgeport, CT) lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions included The World as Will and Representation, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2015) and Images, MOMA PS1, New York (2012). He has participated in the 13th Biennale de Lyon, La Vie Moderne, Lyon (2015) and the Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014) among others. He was the recipient of the Calder Prize in 2013. He is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Galleria Franco Noero, Turin and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. In 2015 his book 77 and/or 58 and/with 19 was published by Primary Information, New York and Photographs I Like/To Have and to Hold/[a show on a piece of paper at the front desk] was published by Karma, New York.
OPENING: 16th September, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
ON VIEW: 16th September - 18th October 2015
Click here to read more about the exhibition and here to view images of the project.
